About the day » Monday May 19, 1760Calender converter

• Adriana Maria van Haaren, Goirle
• Cornelia (Codde) Kodde, Goes († 1827)
• Amos Chase, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States († 1849)
• Antoon Wilhelmus VANDELOO, Overpelt, Pelt, Province of Limburg, Belgium († 1819)
• Adrianus Mensen, Breda 4800, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Versteegt, Montfoort († 1810)
• ANNE MARIE RYPENS, Lier († 1844)
• Corneel Benedictus Smits, Brecht († 1826)
• Barbara Dassen, Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius Kolkman, Het Bosch (Lichtenvoorde)

• Clara Maria van Riedt (82), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• annetje cornelisdr van ES (50), alblasserdam
• Joannes Jacops (48), Vosselaar
• Annetje Cornelisd van Es (50), Alblasserdam, zh.nld
• * Arien Cornelisz den Hertog (58), Schoonrewoerd
• Christoffel van Dulmen (46)
• gerritje jaspers de jong (57), bleiswijk
• Arie Cornelis den HARTOG (58), Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Johannes Placius (58), 't Zand, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornille Six (86), Fretin, Nord, France

• 1700 » José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda, Spanish sergeant and politician († 1770)
• 1724 » Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, English admiral and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland († 1779)
• 1744 » Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German-born Queen to George III of the United Kingdom († 1818)
• 1762 » Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic († 1814)
• 1773 » Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist († 1854)
• 1795 » Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist († 1873)
• 1827 » Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French academic and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1896)
• 1832 » James Watney, Jr., English politician, brewer and cricketer († 1886)
• 1857 » John Jacob Abel, American biochemist and pharmacologist († 1938)
• 1861 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress († 1931)

• 1715 » Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• 1786 » John Stanley, English organist and composer (b. 1712)
• 1795 » James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
• 1795 » Josiah Bartlett, American physician and politician, 4th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1729)
• 1798 » William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1722)
• 1821 » Camille Jordan, French lawyer and politician (b. 1771)
• 1825 » Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher and theorist (b. 1760)
• 1831 » Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Estonian-German physician, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1804)
• 1865 » Sengge Rinchen, Mongolian general (b. 1811)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• March 20 » The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
• August 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
• October 9 » Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
• October 25 » King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of his grandfather George II
• November 15 » The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
• November 18 » The rebuilt debtors' prison, at the Castellania in Valletta, receives the first prisoners.

The temperature on May 19, 1760 was about 11.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken hagel regen.