About the day » Thursday August 18, 1892Calender converter

• Aart Volker, Sliedrecht Zhl. NL († 1894)
• Adrianus Johannes Izaak Visser, Doetinchem († 1971)
• Alphonsus Maria Antonius Ooninckx, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1971)
• Willemina De Jong, Oranjedorp
• Adeline Stent, Barnes, Surrey, England († 1971)
• Alice Rebecca Cowley, Crick, Northamptonshire, England († 1977)
• Albertina Geuchies, Munnekezijl gem. Kollumerland († 1976)
• Anna Kiers, Hijkersmilde (Smilde)
• Adrianus van Dongen, Gilze en Rijen († 1970)
• Andries Langenberg, Ransdorp

• Annechien Deuring (2), Drouwenermond-gemeente Borger
• Carolina van der Loo (55), Ammerzoden
• Allert Harms Venhuizen (82), Den Andel
• Baukje Minnema (23), Dantumadeel
• Antonia Flipsen (68), Made en Drimmelen
• Carolina van der Loo (55), Ammerzoden
• Antoine Baland (73), Boussu, Hainaut, Belgique
• Anna Adriana Janssen (0), Ginneken en Bavel
• Anna Clara van der Zwaan (48), Zutphen
• Antonia Bruggeling (0), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1885 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic († 1964)
• 1887 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining († 1957)
• 1890 » Walther Funk, German economist and politician, Reich Minister of Economics († 1960)
• 1893 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1893 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer († 1973)
• 1896 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director († 1933)
• 1898 » Clemente Biondetti, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1900 » Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge († 1987)
• 1900 » Ruth Norman, American religious leader († 1993)
• 1902 » Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter († 1968)

• 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)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Jacoba
13. Geertruida
14. Neeltje
15. Petronella
16. Trijntje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
• June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
• June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
• July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
• July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
• September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.

The temperature on August 18, 1892 was about 18.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.