About the day » Sunday March 31, 1782Calender converter

• Adrianus Wouters, Casteren († 1858)
• Aartje de Neeling, Amersfoort
• Adriaan Wouters, Casteren
• Abram Jasnz van der Sluijs, Poortugaal, Albrandswaard, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia den Hartog, Culemborg († 1846)
• Anna Cornelia den Hartog, Culemborg (GL) († 1846)
• Andries van Dijk, Woudenberg
• , DOORN (Utrechtse Heuvelrug), Utrecht, Nederland († 1871)
• Abraham Crama, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1829)
• Adrianus Poot, Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1785)

• Christine Becker (1), Wingeshausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Jean tessier, Couesmes, 37084, Indre et Loire, Centre, France
• Hans Jacob Miller (62), Buffalo Creek, Dutch Fork, Donnegal, Washington, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• John Hupp (32), Buffalo Creek, Pennsylvania, United States
• Joannes Staepels (47), Wuustwezel, 2990, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Anna Maria Barbara Dombrowska (36)
• jean baptiste villance (11), offagne
• Gerrit Gerritsz Van EIJSDEN (62)
• Arie Aartsz Baars (54), De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland
• lena dingemans van es (47), ooltgensplaat (goeree overflakkee)

• 1747 » Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German pianist and composer († 1800)
• 1777 » Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer († 1859)
• 1778 » Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist († 1858)
• 1794 » Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1852)
• 1809 » Edward FitzGerald, English poet and translator († 1883)
• 1809 » Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, novelist, and playwright († 1852)
• 1809 » Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer († 1864)
• 1813 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) († 1898)
• 1819 » Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst († 1901)
• 1823 » Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author († 1886)

• 1723 » Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, English soldier and politician, 14th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1661)
• 1741 » Pieter Burman the Elder, Dutch scholar and author (b. 1668)
• 1751 » Frederick, Prince of Wales, Hanoverian-born heir to the British throne (b. 1707)
• 1797 » Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian merchant, author, and activist (b.1745)
• 1837 » John Constable, English painter and educator (b. 1776)
• 1850 » John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
• 1855 » Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1816)
• 1877 » Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1801)
• 1880 » Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Franz Abt, German composer and conductor (b. 1819)

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

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

• 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)
• February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
• March 27 » Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• July 1 » Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
• August 7 » George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
• August 19 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
• September 13 » American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

The temperature on March 31, 1782 was about 8.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: betrokken regen.