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• Berendina (Dina) Cornelis van Zoeren, Leuvenum, Gelderland, Nederland († 1869)
• Berendina Cornelissen van Zoeren, Leuvenum (Ermelo) († 1869)
• Annigje Verrips, Meerkerk, Zederik, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1858)
• Arnolda van Langenhuijsen, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1827)
• Berendina Cornelissen van Zoeren, Ermelo (Leuvenum) († 1869)
• * Maaike Dekker, Sliedrecht († 1863)
• Albert Reinders van Loo, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland († 1867)
• Amelia Theresia CASTELEIN, Roeselare
• Berteld Derks Koning, Zwartsluis, Overijssel, Nederland († 1871)
• Catherine Jeanne De Gree, Blankenberge

• Catharina Cabriol, De Klinge
• Marie-Antoinette Goman (66), Brussel
• Elsje Cornelisdr Rebel (81), Nieuw Loosdrecht
• Geertje Harmens Snijder (40), Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Albertus Groenman (60)
• Arie Schoonderwoerd (80)
• Leonhard FRANKEN (64), Goch, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Dirk Ariensz Leentvaar (85), Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Cornelisz Hoogendoorn (48), Waarder (Ned)
• Egidius Van Avondt (15), Werchter, Antwerpen, Belgium

• 1745 » Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist († 1826)
• 1748 » Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian († 1831)
• 1772 » William Lawless, Irish revolutionary and French general († 1824)
• 1808 » Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France († 1873)
• 1816 » Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer († 1895)
• 1818 » Heinrich Göbel, German-American mechanic and engineer († 1893)
• 1826 » Dinah Craik, English author and poet († 1887)
• 1836 » Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American scientist and academic († 1895)
• 1839 » Carol I of Romania, King of Romania († 1914)
• 1840 » Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator († 1916)

• 1703 » Lancelot Addison, English clergyman and educator (b. 1632)
• 1769 » Chief Pontiac, American tribal leader (b. 1720)
• 1831 » John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (b. 1764)
• 1873 » William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
• 1874 » Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1817)
• 1881 » William Burges, English architect and designer (b. 1827)
• 1886 » Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French general and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1814)
• 1887 » Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)
• 1899 » Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (b. 1833)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Joannes
9. Jacob
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Klaas
14. John
15. Adrianus
16. Arij

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Grietje
8. Trijntje
9. Joanna
10. Aaltje
11. Neeltje
12. Antje
13. Adriana
14. Marie
15. Elizabeth
16. Jannetje

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• February 20 » The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
• April 20 » France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
• April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
• August 13 » King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
• September 2 » During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
• October 13 » In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.

The temperature on April 20, 1792 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: helder.