About the day » Monday August 3, 1750Calender converter

• Irene Wales, Union City, Tolland County, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1793)
• Hendrikus Lammerink, Junne, Overijssel, Nederland († 1817)
• Asa Bryan, Johnston, North Carolina Colony († 1822)
• Doede Klases, Grouw (Frl)
• Anna Cornelia De Rooy, Wilmarsdonk († 1803)
• Henricus van den Heuvel, Amsterdam
• Ijda Haerden, Geleen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Francisca van Duijnhoven, Aarle-Rixtel
• Dominicus Killers, Temse
• Cniertje Stut, Wijk aan Zee († 1754)

• Maria Elisabeth Mitschke (1), Burgstein,bo, Czech Republic
• Mary DuBois (30)
• Marie Madeleine Picavet (51), Bondues, Nord, Hauts-De-France
• Klasina Jacobusdr Van Der Sanden (28), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Johanna Jelis Pensaert (60), Laren
• Else Hindriks Groeneveld (45), Kirchborgum, Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen
• Geertruij van ALTENA, Dordrecht
• (Joh)Anna Jelis (Annetjen Jelissen) Pensaert (60), Laren
• John Sullivant (45), Twitty's Creek, Lunenburg County, Virginia
• Dirk Pietersz Krommenhoek (69), Schiedam, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1692 » John Henley, English minister and poet († 1759)
• 1766 » Aaron Chorin, Hungarian rabbi and author († 1844)
• 1770 » Frederick William III of Prussia († 1840)
• 1803 » Joseph Paxton, English gardener and architect, designed The Crystal Palace († 1865)
• 1808 » Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State († 1893)
• 1811 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company († 1861)
• 1817 » Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen († 1895)
• 1823 » Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish-American revolutionary and military leader, territorial governor of Montana († 1867)
• 1832 » Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer, conductor, and director († 1914)
• 1840 » John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician († 1929)

• 1712 » Joshua Barnes, English historian and scholar (b. 1654)
• 1720 » Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch politician (b. 1641)
• 1721 » Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-English sculptor and woodcarver (b. 1648)
• 1761 » Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar and academic (b. 1691)
• 1773 » Stanisław Konarski, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1700)
• 1780 » Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemiologist and philosopher (b. 1715)
• 1792 » Richard Arkwright, English engineer and businessman (b. 1732)
• 1797 » Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1717)
• 1805 » Christopher Anstey, English author and poet (b. 1724)
• 1835 » Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1767)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• November 11 » Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
• November 11 » The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
• November 24 » Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.

The temperature on August 3, 1750 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: betrokken geheel betrokken.