About the day » Wednesday May 24, 1747Calender converter

• Jan Claes Heidkamp, Makkinga
• Aaltien Rientses, Hieslum
• Aaltje Peet, Leiderdorp
• Cornelis Jans Mansvelder, Gouda
• Harmijntje Thijmens van Hardeveld, Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland († 1781)
• Harmijntje van HARDEVELD, Veenendaal,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Gijsbertje Pippel, Haaften, Gelderland, Nederland († 1819)
• Joanna Maria Van Eepoel, Ramsel, 2230, België († 1817)
• Jacobus Beutels, Scherpenheuvel
• Gerharda Moojen, Mastenbroek, Overijssel, Nederland († 1819)

• Maria Eleonore van Mansfeld (64)
• Anna BORGEMEESTERS, Nijmegen
• Caleb Ward (55), Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• Jan Henric Beckering (9), Mettingen, Pruisen, Duitsland
• Barbara Steendijck, Rotterdam
• Jean Casabonnet (0), Saucède, Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Aquitaine, Frankrijk
• Jacob de Aantrekker (44), Zierikzee
• Joannes Anthonius Cobbaert (0), Pamel,, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Charles BILLION (8), Laon, 02 Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France
• Maria Eleonore van Mansfeld (64)

• 1671 » Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany († 1737)
• 1686 » Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale († 1736)
• 1689 » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council († 1769)
• 1743 » Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician († 1793)
• 1789 » Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (d.1828)
• 1794 » William Whewell, English priest and philosopher († 1866)
• 1803 » Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist († 1866)
• 1810 » Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar († 1874)
• 1816 » Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter († 1868)
• 1819 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom († 1901)

• 1627 » Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet and cleric (b. 1561)
• 1632 » Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (b. 1553)
• 1665 » Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Spanish Franciscan abbess and mystic (b. 1602)
• 1734 » Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1792 » George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1718)
• 1806 » John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, Scottish field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire (b. 1723)
• 1843 » Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
• 1848 » Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German author and composer (b. 1797)
• 1861 » Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)

•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 31 » The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
• May 14 » War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
• October 25 » War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.

The temperature on May 24, 1747 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: regen geheel betrokken.