About the day » Saturday August 26, 1747Calender converter

• Joanna ( Neve ) De Neve, Meetkerke († 1747)
• Dominicus van Rijen, Wouw
• Antonius de GROOT, Geldrop, 3582, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1772)
• Augustinus Giulielmus Nollet, Brugge, West Vlaanderen (B) († 1805)
• Cornelis Turkenburg, Aarlanderveen († 1805)
• Anna van Beek, Amersfoort († 1825)
• Anna Gertrudt Portmann, Mülheim an der Ruhr
• Catharina Jacoba van OTTERLOO, Dordrecht
• Anna Maria ( Neve ) De Neve, Meetkerke († 1747)
• andré jh. DISCART, Wasmuël (Belgium) Hainaut

• Joannes Joannes de WERT, Oirschot,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ester Froyman (68), Lichtervelde,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Helena Stoffelse PRECIJS (46), Nieuw-Vossemeer,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jean Baptiste Presseau (0), Laval, Quebec, Canada
• Commertie Janse Korving (42), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Lijsbeth Aartse Visser, Ridderkerk, Nederland
• Jacob Lammerts, Smilde
• Helena Precijs (46), Nieuw-Vossemeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Hermannus Idema, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Agatha Debaecke (44), Ruddervoorde, Oostkamp, België

• 1694 » Elisha Williams, English colonial minister, academic, and politician († 1755)
• 1695 » Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, French singer-songwriter († 1791)
• 1728 » Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1777)
• 1736 » Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French mineralogist and geologist († 1790)
• 1740 » Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon († 1810)
• 1743 » Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist († 1794)
• 1751 » Manuel Abad y Queipo, Spanish-born Mexican bishop († 1825)
• 1775 » William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic († 1851)
• 1792 » Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan soldier and politician, 4th President of Uruguay († 1857)
• 1797 » Saint Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia († 1879)

• 1666 » Frans Hals, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1580)
• 1714 » Constantin Brâncoveanu, Ruler of Wallachia (b. 1654)
• 1714 » Edward Fowler, English bishop and author (b. 1632)
• 1723 » Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)
• 1785 » George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, English soldier and politician, 3rd Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1716)
• 1810 » Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)
• 1813 » Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (b. 1791)
• 1850 » Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)
• 1865 » Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791)
• 1878 » Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1846)

•  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 August 26, 1747 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent helder.