* 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1787 – Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar ( b. 1710 )

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

* 1787 – Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary ( d. 1837 )

* 1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general ( b. 1787 )

Its first Lieutenant-Governor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 1784 – 1787 ) and his successor was William Macarmick ( 1787 ).

* 1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Three of five siblings survived to adulthood, Denise Diderot ( 1715 – 1797 ) and their youngest brother Pierre-Didier Diderot ( 1722 – 1787 ), and finally their sister Angélique Diderot ( 1720 – 1749 ).

* 1787 – Mary Russell Mitford, English writer ( d. 1855 )

* 1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U. S. Constitution.

* 1787 – John Dobson, English architect ( d. 1865 )

* 1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French geologist ( b. 1787 )

* 1723 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer ( d. 1787 )

* 1717 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat ( d. 1787 )

The French Revolutionary Wars 1787 – 1802 ( 1996 ).

* 1787 – Militia led by General

# On 6 January 1808, he married again to another first cousin, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este ( 14 December 1787 – 7 April 1816 ) with no issue.

Between 1764 and 1771, the average importation of slaves varied between 10 000 – 15 000, by 1786 about 28 000, and, from 1787 onward, the colony received more than 40 000 slaves a year.

Middleton's son, Arthur ( 1742 – 1787 ) would also get involved in politics, succeeding his father as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, after his resignation, and, later on, sign the Declaration of Independence.

* 1826 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist ( b. 1787 )

* 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.

In Florence on 8 September 1787 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 18 October 1787 ( in person ), Anton married a second time with the Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria ( Maria Theresia Josephe Charlotte Johanna ), daughter of the Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany, later Emperor Leopold II.

Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ( d. 1787 ), founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, then brought some attention back to casuistry by publishing again Hermann Busembaum's Medulla Theologiae Moralis ; the last edition published in 1785 and receiving the approbation of the Holy See in 1803.

* 1696 – Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian bishop and saint ( d. 1787 )

Sarah Armitage McKean with their daughter Maria Louisa ( Charles Willson Peale, 1787 )

* Christoph Willibald Gluck ( 1714 – 1787 ) was Kapellmeister starting 1754 for Maria Theresa of Austria in Vienna.

After Lucy died of whooping cough, in 1787 Jefferson sent for his surviving daughter, nine-year-old Maria ( Polly ) Jefferson, to live with him.

Goethe met the lawyer in April of 1787 and saw the documents and Balsamo's pedigree: Balsamo's great-grandfather Matteo Martello had two daughters: Maria, who married Giuseppe Bracconeri ; and Vincenza, who married Giuseppe Cagliostro.

Wolfe Tone's only surviving son was William Theobald Wolfe Tone ( both the eldest two children died prematurely: Maria, b. 1786, Dublin, d. 1803, Paris, France, of consumption i. e. tuberculosis and Richard, b 1787 / 1789, died in infancy.

* Princess Maria Sophie Josepha ( Vienna, 5 September 1798 – Vienna, 27 June 1869 ), married in Vienna on 4 August 1817 Vincenz Graf Esterházy von Galántha ( Pressburg, 25 October 1787 – Eisgrub, 19 October 1835 ), without issue

He probably met his future wife, Maria Magdalena Keverich ( 1746 – 1787 ), on a trip to Ehrenbreitstein.

Johann was an alcoholic, a situation that worsened when Maria died in 1787, after which time the family was increasingly dependent on young Ludwig for support.

Johann Natterer was born on November 9, 1787, as a son of the animal-zoologist Joseph Natterer Sr. and of Maria Anna Theresia Schober ( his mother ) the daughter of a master baker from Laxenburg.

* Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ( 1696 – 1787 ) Founder, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ( September 27, 1696 – August 1, 1787 ) was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, scholastic philosopher and theologian, and founder of the Redemptorists, an influential religious congregation.

Princess Józefina Maria Czartoryska ( 1787 – 1862 ) was a Polish noble lady.

James Murray Mason was a grandson of George Mason ( 1725 – 1792 ); nephew of George Mason V ( 1753 – 1796 ); grandnephew of Thomson Mason ( 1733 – 1785 ); first cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1760 – 1803 ) and John Thomson Mason ( 1765 – 1824 ); son of John Mason ( 1766 – 1849 ) and Anna Maria Murray Mason ( 1776 – 1857 ); first cousin of Thomson Francis Mason ( 1785 – 1838 ), George Mason VI ( 1786 – 1834 ), and Richard Barnes Mason ( 1797 – 1850 ); second cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1850 ), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. ( 1815 – 1873 ); second cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1811 – 1843 ); and first cousin thrice removed of Charles O ' Conor Goolrick.

Ferdinand August Maria Franz von Ritgen ( 11 October 1787 – 14 April 1867 ) was a German obstetrician born in the Westphalian village of Wulfen ( now part of Dorsten ).

He married in 1787 one of his most popular models, the young Clara Maria Leigh ( 1768-1838 ), who was also an artist.

* Marie Ludovika ( 1787 – 1816 ), married her first cousin Franz I, Emperor of Austria

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