About the day » Tuesday August 12, 1749Calender converter

• Edzhardt Rudolph (Esse) Riekhof, Volthe, 7596, Nederland († 1818)
• Catherine Francoise Dalloyau, Epernon (F28)
• Arie Kuijpers ( Kuipers ), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1809)
• Henricus van PASSEL, Hulshout, 2235, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België († 1829)
• Alexandrine Joseph BEUGNIET, Annezin,62232,Pas-de-Calais,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE († 1820)
• Isabella Bruggeman, Rupelmonde,9150,Oost-Vlaanderen,BE († 1835)
• Cornelis van Noort, Veur
• Guillaume MIDREZ, SPA, Liège, Belgique († 1811)
• Arie Kuijper, Voorburg († 1809)
• Anna Johanna Margaretha van Blokziel, Utrecht († 1822)

• Johannes de Kleen
• Lubertus Vermehr (52), Batavia
• Anna Bronson (39), Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• Jan Hendriks van Hamont (30), Schijndel, Nederland
• Geneviève Gaudin dit Châtillon (41), Neuville, Comté de Portneuf, Québec, Canada
• Maartje Jansdr van der Gust (65), Katwijk aan den Rijn
• Anne Ariens, Zijpe, NL
• Geneviève Godin (41), Neuville, Comté de Portneuf, Québec, Canada
• Geneviève Gaudin (41), Neuville, Portneuf, Qc
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• 1644 » Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer († 1704)
• 1686 » John Balguy, English philosopher and author († 1748)
• 1696 » Maurice Greene, English organist and composer († 1755)
• 1762 » George IV of the United Kingdom († 1830)
• 1773 » Karl Faber, Prussian historian and academic († 1853)
• 1774 » Robert Southey, English poet and author († 1843)
• 1831 » Helena Blavatsky, Russian theosophist and scholar († 1891)
• 1852 » Michael J. McGivney, American priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus († 1890)
• 1856 » Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist († 1917)
• 1857 » Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter and educator († 1924)

• 1674 » Philippe de Champaigne, Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1602)
• 1689 » Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
• 1778 » Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire (b. 1714)
• 1809 » Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
• 1810 » Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
• 1822 » Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (b. 1769)
• 1827 » William Blake, English poet and painter (b. 1757)
• 1829 » Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (b. 1760)
• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)

• 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 August 12, 1749 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken regen. Special wheather fenomena: donder.