About the day » Sunday May 16, 1762Calender converter

• Aart Schutter, Nieuw-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Ariensz Schutter, Nieuw-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1826)
• Abram Pietersz. van der Eijk, Vlaardingen († 1769)
• Abel Dirksz HAAN, Oostzaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1790)
• Aart Schutter, Nieuw Beijerland († 1826)
• Aagje Lodder, Ridderkerk
• Abraham BOOIJ, Moordrecht
• Anna van Driel, Heerjansdam
• Aaltje van Masijk, Oud-Loosdrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

• Dirk HEERE (46), Raamsdonk, 4125, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aris Jansz Bier (42), Beemster, Noord-Holland (NL)
• Ennemond MARMONIER (66), Succieu,38300,Isère,Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,FRANCE
• Joannes VAN WAESBERGHE (66), Oudenaarde
• Jan Te TE RAEMAKER (66), Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Joannes van WAESBERGHE (66), Oudenaarde, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Livinus van AERDE (90), Kalken
• Benedictus Baes (1), Brugge (BE)
• Aaltje Zuidhoek (1), Noordwijk
• Eleanora Courtenay (51), England

• 1710 » William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household († 1782)
• 1718 » Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher († 1799)
• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)

• 1667 » Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1607)
• 1669 » Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter and architect, designed the Santi Luca e Martina (b. 1596)
• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)

• 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)
• May 22 » Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
• June 6 » In the Seven Years' War, British forces begin the Siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city.
• July 17 » Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.
• September 12 » The Sultanate of Sulu ceded Balambangan Island to the British East India Company
• September 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
• October 6 » Seven Years' War: The British Capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.

The temperature on May 16, 1762 was about 13.0 °C. There was 154 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: regen geheel betrokken.