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• Carolus Simoens, Aartrijke
• Bernard De Smet, Steenhuyse († 1796)
• Arend Ariensz Arkesteijn, Zouteveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL († 1879)
• Anna GRUITHUISEN, Bergeijk, 3314, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1873)
• Arnoldus Ariensz Arkesteijn, Zouteveen († 1879)
• Aletta van Meerendonk, Zierikzee († 1859)
• Anna Katharina Held, Evangelisch, Tuttlingen, Schwarzwaldkreis, Wuerttemberg († 1794)
• Anton Šeda SCHEYDA, Maršov č. 44 († 1857)
• Charlotte Wambolt van Umstadt, Mainz, Rheinland-Palts († 1870)
• Arnoldus Arkesteijn, Zouteveen († 1879)

• Jacobus Emanuel van Vlierberghe (88), St. Pauwels
• Jean Verhaegen (67), Haecht
• Hendrik Cornelissen Bast (49), Ermelo
• Bastiaantje van der WAAL (68), Oude-Tonge, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Bastiaantje Johannesdr van der Waal (71), oude tonge (goeree overflakkee)
• Elisabeth STEPS (62), Kapelle-op-den-Bos, 1880, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Jane Loud (34)
• Carel Johan Chass‚ (70), Tiel
• Elisabeth - Anna Catharina Steps (62), Kapelle-op-den-Bos
• "Rutger" Meinsz Nagel (62), Eemdijk, Bunschoten, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1753 » Josef Dobrovský, Bohemian philologist and historian († 1828)
• 1768 » Louis Desaix, French general († 1800)
• 1786 » Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician († 1836)
• 1786 » Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld († 1861)
• 1801 » Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer and feminist († 1865)
• 1828 » Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist and physician († 1897)
• 1840 » Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist († 1922)
• 1845 » Henry Cadwalader Chapman, American physician and naturalist († 1909)
• 1849 » William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland († 1919)
• 1863 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer († 1924)

• 1723 » Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668)
• 1768 » Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703)
• 1785 » Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710)
• 1786 » Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712)
• 1809 » Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (b. 1728)
• 1814 » John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (b. 1732)
• 1834 » Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (b. 1802)
• 1838 » Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749)
• 1850 » José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778)
• 1861 » Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to Texas (b. 1806)

• 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 10 » French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
• September 17 » War of the Pyrenees: France defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.
• October 15 » Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death the following day.
• November 10 » A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
• December 9 » New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.

The temperature on August 17, 1793 was about 16.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.