* 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 – 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 )

* 1787 – Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia ( d. 1816 )

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.

* 1855 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist ( b. 1787 )

* January 10 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist ( b. 1787 )

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

In 1787 Sally Hemings at the age of 14 was chosen to accompany Mary ( Polly ), the youngest daughter of Jefferson, to Paris to rejoin her father ; the widower was serving as the US Minister to France.

Some leaders of the new republic — notably James Madison, with whom he lodged at Mrs. Mary House's prominent boarding establishment in 1787 and 1788 — were cognizant of Thornton's abolitionist activities.

He was distantly related to the novelist Mary Russell Mitford ( 1787 – 1865 ).

Mary Dundas ( 30 May 1787 – 1 November 1830 ), married Charles FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliam

Mary Russell Mitford ( 16 December 1787 – 10 January 1855 ), was an English author and dramatist.

Also following her to America was her brother, William Lee ( 1740 – 1784 ); Nancy Lee, her niece ; James Whittaker ( 1751 – 1787 ), who had been brought up by Mother Ann and was probably related to her ; John Hocknell ( 1723 – 1799 ), who provided the funds for the trip ; his son, Richard ; and James Shepherd and Mary Partington.

** Puy Mary ( 1787 m )

By the late eighteenth century, Elizabeth Brooke's inheritance was again united in Sir William Boothby, 4th Baronet ; when he died in 1787, the quarter of the Barony of Burgh, and the heirship to Cobham, passed to his only sister, Mrs. Mary Disney.

* Charlotte Mary Nelson, 3rd Duchess of Bronté ( 1787 – 1873 )

" The Founding Fathers of 1776 and 1787: A Collective View ," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol.

Mary Anne Yates ( 1728 – 1787 ) was an English tragic actress.

On July 9, 1787, during a brief return to Virginia, Greenup married Mary Catherine (" Cathy ") Pope of Hanover County, Virginia ; the couple had two children – Nancy and William.

* Matthias Richards, the husband of Mary Salome Muhlenberg, Henry's ( 1711 – 1787 ) youngest child.

Daniel Jr. was the son of Captain Daniel ( 1697 – 1787 ) and Mary Steere ( c. 1700 – 1776 ) Mowry.

After the war he settled in Duanesburg, New York, where he married Mary Duane, daughter of James Duane, on October 14, 1787, and had six children.

In 1787, Simon Willard married again, to Mary Bird, a 24-year-old Boston native.

( 1797 ); Sir Joseph Banks ( 1789 ); Qian Long, emperor of China ( 1796 ); Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol ; Mary Palmer ( 1785 ); William Whitehead ( 1787 ); Paul Whitehead ( 1776 ); and Sir William Young.