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• Anne Marie Maria Guertz, Baarlo, Limburg, Netherlands († 1859)
• Allen Mead, Saratoga County, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1849)
• Anna Catharina Schepers, Born (Sittard-Geleen), Limburg, Nederland († 1859)
• Adriana van de Veerdonck, Berlicum († 1796)
• Adrianus de Bruijn, Bergen op Zoom († 1869)
• Anna Maria Elizabeth Terspil, Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland († 1859)
• Arent Mannes of Herms van Dijk, Heerde-Vorgten-Werven, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Helder, Westergeest
• (Therentia) Wilhelmina Schoffelmeijer, Aduard († 1854)
• Aaltje Jans Helder, Westergeest († 1868)

• Bauke Hoekes de Haan (46), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Christina Gordemans, Grathem, Limburg, Netherlands
• Arie (Arie) van Aste
• Engbert Rotmans (78), Geesteren
• Elisabeth Cornelisse (Lijsbeth) van Luijk (74), Kethel en Spaland, ZH, Nederland
• Asa Holt (50), Wilmington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Fran√ßoise Jos√©pha MARTIN (49), Notre Dame de la Chapelle, Brussel
• Benjamin Bishop (81), Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
• Agneta Jansen (29), Meiderich, Duisburg, Rheinland
• Albert Roelofs Heuning (31), Groningen

• 1751 » Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet, translator, and academic († 1826)
• 1753 » Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence († 1815)
• 1759 » Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist († 1813)
• 1774 » Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Spanish cartographer, engineer, military officer and land surveyor of Spanish Louisiana and Spanish West Florida († 1829)
• 1784 » Judith Montefiore, British linguist, travel writer, philanthropist († 1862)
• 1792 » Eliza Courtney, French daughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire († 1859)
• 1794 » William Carleton, Irish author († 1869)
• 1802 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer († 1870)
• 1819 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician († 1882)
• 1839 » Benjamin Waugh, English activist, founded the NSPCC († 1908)

• 1762 » Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (b. 1723)
• 1771 » Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (b. 1678)
• 1773 » Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
• 1778 » Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and scholar (b. 1711)
• 1790 » Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
• 1806 » Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-American general and politician (b. 1725)
• 1810 » Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean rebel leader (b. 1767)
• 1850 » Valentín Canalizo, Mexican general and politician. 14th President (1843–1844) (b. 1794)
• 1862 » William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
• 1871 » Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (b. 1810)

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

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

• 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)
• May 23 » Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
• June 2 » French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
• June 24 » The French Constitution of 1793 is formally adopted, although it is effectively suspended by the Committee of Public Safety.
• July 22 » Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
• October 16 » French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
• December 25 » General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.

The temperature on February 20, 1793 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken mist.