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• Christina Maria Swaak, Amsterdam († 1794)
• (w) Otto, Feudingen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Catharina Gertrud Spicker, Düsseldorf, Derendorf, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Adriaantje Binneweg, Numansdorp
• Cornelis Samuels van Wensveen, Hillegersberg († 1830)
• Anna Margaretha Koele, Utrecht Utr. NL († 1849)
• Barend Bengevoort, Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1838)
• Catharina Victoria Beauprez, Klerken († 1871)
• Adriaantje Leendertsdr Binneweg, Numansdorp (NLD) († 1849)
• Antonia van Kerkhof, Horssen, Gelderland, Nederland

• Elisabeth Pietersdr. van Schenkeveld, Kethel Z.H
• Elisabeth Schenkeveld (24), Kethel
• Huibregt Leenders van den Ende (74), Delft, Nederland
• Allain GUILLOU (46), Pleyben, 29162, Finistère, Bretagne, France
• Eleanor POWELL (0), Hornby, Yorkshire, England
• Deborah Nye (44), Barnard,Windsor,Vermont, Verenigde Staten
• Brigiitta Groenevelt, Edam, Volendam-Edam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Hester Roeloff (0), Rotterdam
• Adam van PAASEN (62), Monster,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis van der Ruijt, Rijnsburg

• 1789 » Franz Schlik, Austrian earl and general († 1862)
• 1790 » James Pradier, French neoclassical sculptor († 1852)
• 1790 » Jules Dumont d'Urville, French admiral and explorer († 1842)
• 1794 » Ignaz Moscheles, Czech pianist and composer († 1870)
• 1795 » Charles Barry, English architect, designed the Upper Brook Street Chapel and Halifax Town Hall († 1860)
• 1800 » Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Mexican general and president (1855) († 1877)
• 1810 » Margaret Fuller, American journalist and critic († 1850)
• 1817 » Manuel Robles Pezuela, Unconstitutional Mexican interim president († 1862)
• 1820 » James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge († 1887)
• 1820 » Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge († 1891)

• 1749 » Abraham ben Abraham, Polish martyr (b. 1700)
• 1752 » William Bradford, English-American printer (b. 1663)
• 1754 » John Wood, the Elder, English architect, designed The Circus and Queen Square (b. 1704)
• 1783 » James Otis, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1725)
• 1813 » Géraud Duroc, French general and diplomat (b. 1772)
• 1815 » Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (b. 1753)
• 1841 » Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
• 1855 » Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1857 » Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1789)
• 1868 » Kit Carson, American general (b. 1809)

• 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)
• January 25 » The London Corresponding Society is founded.
• March 29 » King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
• April 5 » United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
• April 21 » Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
• June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• October 29 » Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

The temperature on May 23, 1792 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.