About the day » Thursday October 15, 1744Calender converter

• Bernardus Strack, Wehl, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelius van de Laer, Liempde
• Adriana Dirkx Dirks Dircken, Princenhage († 1816)
• Christiaan Gottlieb (de Oudere) van Kramsta, Swiebodzice (Freiburg/Sil.), Neder-Silezië, Polen († 1804)
• Adriaan Boer de, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Michaeli Verhoeven, Ulicoten († 1803)
• Cornelis-David Sanderse, Grijpskerke
• Cheniah COVALT, Sussex County,NY († 1820)
• Cornelia Westman, Den Haag
• Adriana Klaverveld, Reeuwijk

• Geesken Veldhuis, Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Rodenbach (59), Heubach, Hassberge, Bayern, Germany
• Herbert Wassink (64), Dale, NL
• Helena Clara Beckmans (39), Urmond,, Limburg, Nederland
• Agnes Hille (5)
• Livinus Wyns (72), Heist op den Berg
• Petronella van Eck (Von Heek, Van Heck, Van Eeck) (38)
• Lydia Shuttleworth (68), St Charles, Charles, Maryland, United States
• Helena Clara Beckmans (39), Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Slycke (40), Zwevezele, West-Vlaanderen, België

• 1686 » Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright († 1758)
• 1701 » Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns († 1771)
• 1711 » Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine († 1741)
• 1762 » Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator († 1820)
• 1767 » Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician († 1832)
• 1784 » Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria († 1849)
• 1785 » José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician († 1821)
• 1789 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds († 1847)
• 1795 » Frederick William IV of Prussia, Prussian king from 1840-1861 († 1861)
• 1814 » Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter († 1841)

• 1674 » Robert Herrick, English poet (b. 1591)
• 1684 » Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626)
• 1690 » Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (b. 1622)
• 1715 » Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1675)
• 1788 » Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
• 1810 » Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (b. 1755)
• 1811 » Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (b. 1735)
• 1817 » Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (b. 1746)
• 1819 » Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1744)
• 1820 » Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (b. 1771)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• February 22 » War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
• July 4 » The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cede lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
• September 30 » War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway.

The temperature on October 15, 1744 was about 11.0 °C. There was 29 mm of rainWind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: regen geheel betrokken.