About the day » Saturday May 24, 1749Calender converter

• Abraham Bekkens, IJzendijke († 1815)
• Hieronimus Clement, Beert
• Catharina Heuts, Geulle, Limburg, Nederland († 1788)
• Anna Gertrudt Wensinck, Bocholt DEU-Hemden
• Cornelia PIETERMAN, Lage Zwaluw, Noord Brabant, Netherlands († 1765)
• Gelif van der Neut, Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Bours, Geulle (Meerssen), Limburg, Nederland († 1781)
• Jean Baptiste Van den Elsken, Brussel († 1829)
• Catharina Heuts, Meerssen (Geulle) (Limburg) († 1788)
• Amelia (Lady) MOLYNEUX († 1780)

• Anna Wesselingh, Amsterdam
• Laurentius BAL (54), Niel,2845,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Diana Van Kirk (48), Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
• Maria Francisca Jacob (64), Noordschote,8647,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Johann Albrecht Zweiffel (75), Schwäbisch Hall
• Pieter Zwaan, Rijnsburg
• Anne Marie VERLAINE (81), Bousval, 1470, Brabant Wallon, Belgique
• Judocus Aelbrecht (79), Sint Niklaas
• Jannetje 't Hart
• Cornelia van der Vaart (0), De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 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)

• 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 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
• January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
• May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
• June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

The temperature on May 24, 1749 was about 24.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.