About the day » Sunday August 18, 1782Calender converter

• van Dam, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands († 1782)
• Albertien Hendriks Beening, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1850)
• Anneken Joosten Lankhair, Babiloniënbroek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Adrianusz Durieux, Katwijk aan den Rijn († 1883)
• Abram BEKET Szn, Sommelsdijk, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Abram Salomonsz BEKET, Sommelsdijk († 1832)
• Arij Foppen Verheij, Hoogvliet
• Anna Joannes JANSSEN (Janssens), Etten-Leur,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Arij Fobsz Verheij, Hoogvliet († 1846)
• abram beket, sommelsdijk (goeree overflakkee) († 1832)

• Caroline Louise van Waldeck-Pyrmont (34)
• AALTJE HENDRIKSEN BOUW (43), Voorthuizen
• Cornelis Haasnoot (31), Katwijk aan Zee
• van Dam (0), Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Aldert Vlieland (62), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Meulenaere (69), Stoppeldijk (Vogelwaarde)
• Elisabeth Rogiers (64), Temse, België
• Ignatius Depuydt (63), Merkem West-Vlaanderen België
• Garretjen Wonnink (30), Vorden
• Ida Bollen (61), Sittard-Geleen (Geleen) (Limburg)

• 1750 » Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor († 1825)
• 1754 » François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general and engineer († 1833)
• 1774 » Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician († 1809)
• 1792 » John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1878)
• 1803 » Nathan Clifford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 19th United States Attorney General († 1881)
• 1807 » B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia († 1893)
• 1819 » Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia († 1876)
• 1822 » Isaac P. Rodman, American general and politician († 1862)
• 1830 » Franz Joseph I of Austria († 1916)
• 1831 » Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician († 1931)

• 1648 » Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1615)
• 1683 » Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
• 1707 » William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1640)
• 1712 » Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1660)
• 1765 » Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
• 1815 » Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
• 1823 » André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)

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)
• January 15 » Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
• February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
• March 27 » Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• September 13 » American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
• December 14 » The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2km (1.2mi).
• December 16 » British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah.

The temperature on August 18, 1782 was about 14.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.