About the day » Friday July 4, 1738Calender converter

• Anthonius (Antoon) Groenen, Venray, Limburg, Nederland († 1817)
• Cornelia Winthagen (Winthaegen), Klimmen
• Berent van de Maet, Almelo
• Anna Thresia Joannes Cuijpers, Wintelre, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1794)
• Christianus Custers, Sittard,, Limburg, Nederland
• Carolus Franciscus Blontrock, Koekelare († 1813)
• Catharina van Meurs
• Barbara Beens, Eindhoven (NL) († 1830)
• anne marie ANDRY, Pâturages (Belgium)
• Anne Buford 6 G S F & W, Bromfield Parish, Culpeper, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1790)

• Hubert Francois DONCKIER de DONCEEL (31), Liege, Province de Liege, Walloon Region, Belgie
• Charles Siméon Ghislain de Prelle (35), Bataille de Madia
• Losijntje PIJTERS (40), Jet,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland
• Mary Ward Catlin (89), Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
• Jan Bayens (0), Driel, Nederland
• Janna Anthonis, Zaamslag
• Maartje de Mooij (4), Rijnsburg
• Mary Ward Catlin (91), Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
• Nathaniel Merrill (73), Haverhill, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts
• Agnetis Daemen (Dahmen) (45), Susteren

• 1694 » Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist and composer († 1772)
• 1715 » Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and academic († 1769)
• 1719 » Michel-Jean Sedaine, French playwright († 1797)
• 1729 » George Leonard, American lawyer, jurist and politician († 1819)
• 1753 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight († 1809)
• 1790 » George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor († 1866)
• 1799 » Oscar I of Sweden († 1859)
• 1804 » Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer († 1864)
• 1807 » Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician († 1882)
• 1816 » Hiram Walker, American businessman, founded Canadian Club whisky († 1899)

• 1648 » Antoine Daniel, French missionary and saint, one of the eight Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
• 1742 » Luigi Guido Grandi, Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1671)
• 1754 » Philippe Néricault Destouches, French playwright and author (b. 1680)
• 1761 » Samuel Richardson, English author and painter (b. 1689)
• 1780 » Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (b. 1712)
• 1787 » Charles, Prince of Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
• 1821 » Richard Cosway, English painter and academic (b. 1742)
• 1826 » John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
• 1826 » Thomas Jefferson, American architect, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
• 1831 » James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• January 7 » A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.
• April 15 » Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.
• April 18 » Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
• May 25 » A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
• July 15 » Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
• July 20 » Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.

The temperature on July 4, 1738 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken en regen.