About the day » Tuesday May 6, 1732Calender converter

• Adriana Timmers, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelius Florijn, Boschkapelle, Zeeland, Nederland
• jacques jh. GALLEZ, Wasmes (Belgium)
• Helena Joannes van HAAREN, Oirschot, 4059, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catherine COLLAS, Vichy, 03200
• Hermann Buckers, Keppeln
• Elizabeth OSWALD, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Henrina Polman, Emmerich
• Amelberga Aelbrecht, Sint Niklaas († 1735)
• Furcy Carpentier, Fresnoy-le-Grand, 02334, Aisne, Picardie, France

• Christian Hoffmann (0), Holzhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Jan Asselbergh, Boom
• Cornelis Arisz Sandtvliedt (30), Wassenaar, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Cornelis Arijensz Keijser van Sandvliet (46), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Johann Jacob Dick (2), Gauersheim, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Mercer Browne Brown (47), Nottingham Twp, Chester Cnty, Pennsylvania, Colonial America
• ABRAHAM DUPONT
• Jean Baptiste Lemiengre (63), Quesnoy-sur-Deule, 59 (F)
• Joannes Asselbergh, Boom
• Marie FICHOU (70), Plouha, Côtes d'Armor

• 1668 » Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright († 1747)
• 1680 » Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Italian-French cellist and composer († 1755)
• 1713 » Charles Batteux, French philosopher and academic († 1780)
• 1714 » Anton Raaff, German tenor († 1797)
• 1742 » Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor and physiologist († 1809)
• 1758 » André Masséna, French general († 1817)
• 1758 » Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician († 1794)
• 1769 » Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany († 1824)
• 1769 » Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic († 1834)
• 1781 » Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher and author († 1832)

• 1596 » Giaches de Wert, Flemish-Italian composer (b. 1535)
• 1631 » Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, English historian and politician, founded the Cotton library (b. 1570)
• 1638 » Cornelius Jansen, Dutch-French bishop and theologian (b. 1585)
• 1708 » François de Laval, French-Canadian bishop (b. 1623)
• 1757 » Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1683)
• 1757 » Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
• 1782 » Christine Kirch, German astronomer and academic (b. 1696)
• 1840 » Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (b. 1792)
• 1859 » Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)
• 1862 » Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• June 9 » James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
• September 16 » In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two thirds of its inhabitants.
• November 29 » The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes 1,940 deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples, southern Italy.
• December 7 » The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.

The temperature on May 6, 1732 was about 15.0 °C. There was 95 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: regen onweer.