About the day » Thursday August 16, 1725Calender converter

• Engelberta Jacobsdr. van de Smaal, Nootdorp († 1726)
• Anthony Buijs, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1808)
• Kraft Birkelbach, Erndtebrück, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Joseph van AART, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Guillam Sellenslagh, Boom († 1794)
• albert gerard, fays les veneurs
• Angela van der Smael, Nootdorp
• Dirk Lunenburg, Heenvliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Gerhard Heinrich WENNING, Vreden, Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland († 1793)
• Elisabet von Hebell, Haren (Ems)

• Therese CHEVALIER (50), Hotel Dieu de Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Joseph le MOYNE de LONGUEIL (0), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
• Claude Le Jeune JOVIGNOT (81), Les Maillys, 21371, Côte d'Or, Bourgogne, France
• Johanna Arts, Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Marie-Thérèse Chevalier (50), Notre-Dame-de-Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Teuna van Malsem (0), Ridderkerk
• Johann Bernhard HEGEWISCH (4), Quakenbrück, Niedersachsen, Germany
• Leendert van Houwelingen (38), Hardinxveld (NL)
• Adrianus De Backer (65), Gierle
• Hermannus Evers (5), Lünne (D)

• 1637 » Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen († 1706)
• 1645 » Jean de La Bruyère, French philosopher and author († 1696)
• 1650 » Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk, cosmographer, and cartographer († 1718)
• 1682 » Louis, Duke of Burgundy († 1712)
• 1744 » Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and surveyor († 1804)
• 1761 » Yevstigney Fomin, Russian pianist and composer († 1800)
• 1815 » John Bosco, Italian priest and educator († 1888)
• 1816 » Octavia Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor († 1820)
• 1820 » Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of New Brunswick († 1892)
• 1821 » Arthur Cayley, English mathematician and academic († 1895)

• 1661 » Thomas Fuller, English historian and author (b. 1608)
• 1678 » Andrew Marvell, English poet and author (b. 1621)
• 1705 » Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1654)
• 1733 » Matthew Tindal, English philosopher and author (b. 1657)
• 1791 » Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
• 1836 » Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1755)
• 1855 » Henry Colburn, English publisher (b. 1785)
• 1861 » Ranavalona I, Queen consort of Kingdom of Madagascar and then sovereign (b. 1778)
• 1878 » Richard Upjohn, English-American architect (b. 1802)
• 1886 » Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and philosopher (b. 1836)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• May 21 » The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
• September 5 » Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.

The temperature on August 16, 1725 was about 12.0 °C.