About the day » Thursday August 2, 1725Calender converter

• Cornelius Linders, Wanroij, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Henriëtte Geertrui van Essen, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1752)
• Elisabeth MOSTMANS, Merksplas, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Hendricus Bokstijn, Culemborg († 1729)
• Emmanuel Lagast, Brugge-St Pieters († 1786)
• Elisabetha Martens van den Berg, Naarden
• Emmanuelis Lagast, Brugge, België († 1786)
• Hilke Döhling, Weener, Duitsland
• Jacob Remmers, Loppersum, Frisia Orientalis († 1801)
• GUILIELMUS CRAB, WESEMAEL († 1754)

• Katherine * Brattle (60), Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• Felix von Podewils (73), Wysiedle / Woitzel, Pologne
• Mattheus BUIJS (28), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland)
• Laurentius GHIJS, Pamel
• Pascalus VLAMYNCK (38)
• Elisabeth Volck (54), Kestert, Sankt Goarshausen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
• Hannah Walley (59), Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Pierre CHEDEMAIL (40), Janzé, 35150, France
• Leonor de Lemos e Moraes (45), Santo Amaro, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Rebecca Samson

• 1646 » Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral and buccaneer († 1715)
• 1672 » Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar († 1733)
• 1674 » Philippe II, Duke of Orléans († 1723)
• 1696 » Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan († 1754)
• 1702 » Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau († 1769)
• 1703 » Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1775)
• 1740 » Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general († 1817)
• 1754 » Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. († 1825)
• 1788 » Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic († 1853)
• 1815 » Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet and historian († 1894)

• 1605 » Richard Leveson, English admiral (b. c. 1570)
• 1611 » Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1562)
• 1667 » Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect, designed San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (b. 1599)
• 1696 » Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (b. 1630)
• 1769 » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1689)
• 1788 » Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
• 1799 » Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1745)
• 1815 » Guillaume Brune, French general and politician (b. 1763)
• 1823 » Lazare Carnot, French mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention (b. 1753)
• 1834 » Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (b. 1793)

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

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

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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 2, 1725 was about 14.0 °C.