About the day » Tuesday August 12, 1760Calender converter

• Jacobus Beersmans, Knegsel († 1845)
• Gilles Joseph MARECHAL, Fernelmont (Forville),5380,Namur,Wallonie,BELGIQUE († 1842)
• Hartwig Beekman, Amsterdam
• Cornelia Gudden, Stokkum († 1822)
• Cornelius Bartalomäus Schmitz, Düsseldorf, Derendorf, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Jeanne Florentine CLOET, Veurne,8630,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1831)
• Alexander Kessels, Schaesberg, Limburg, Nederland
• Gerryt Hendriks Baantjer, Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands († 1823)
• Joan Henrich Wübben, Lathen, Emsland
• Gerrit Hendriks Baantjer, Harlingen († 1823)

• Bavo Weustenraedt (57), Hellebroek, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelia Jessen, Spaubeek (Beek), Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelis Bastiaanszn (Bakker) (38), Ridderkerk
• Cornelis Bastiaansz. Bakker (37), Ridderkerk
• Adrianus Edel, den (0), Waddinxveen
• Cornelia Jessen, Spaubeek
• Cornelis Bastiaansz Bakker, Ouderkerk aan de IJssel
• Davidt Davidse Sanderse (76), Koudekerke, 4371, Nederland
• Captain William Austin Carr (53), Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Province of Virginia, British Colonial America
• Eva Mathai Johannis Mathyssen (76), Rijsbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 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)
• 1859 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author († 1929)

• 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 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.
• June 23 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia.
• July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
• August 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
• 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.

The temperature on August 12, 1760 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken.