About the day » Sunday August 22, 1762Calender converter

• Anna Maria Elisabeth Aarts, Wintelre
• Adriaantje Korevaar, Groot-Ammers, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1815)
• Aaltje Gerritsd BROUWER, Vlaardingen
• Annetje Jansdr Berg van den, Hoogvliet, Zh, Nederland († 1829)
• Aaltje Gerritsd. Brouwer, Vlaardingen
• Adriaantje de SOMER, Hoek († 1771)
• Aaltje, Putten
• Alida Puyt, Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Adriaan Adriaans Markus, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1839)

• Joannes Franciscus Christiaen THEUNEN (48), Vorselaar,2290,Antwerpen,Vlaanderen,BELGIË
• Jakobina Zaiser (81), Köngen, Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Francisca Franssen (71), Helden, Li.NL
• Barent Simonsz Van Der HEIJDEN (53)
• Guillaume LEMAÎTRE (60), Courcelles, 6180, Hainaut, Belgique
• Alida Slokker (52), Den Hoorn
• Catharijn Gerrit WILLEMS (46), Hoogeloon, 3766, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Johannes Pieters van der PERK (43), Leeuwarden
• Guillaume Lemaître (60), Courcelles, Hainaut, Wallonie
• Cornelis van den Haak (11)

• 1760 » Pope Leo XII († 1829)
• 1764 » Charles Percier, French architect and interior designer († 1838)
• 1771 » Henry Maudslay, English engineer († 1831)
• 1773 » Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer († 1858)
• 1778 » James Kirke Paulding, American poet, playwright, and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy († 1860)
• 1788 » Thomas Tredgold, English engineer and author († 1829)
• 1800 » Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar († 1865)
• 1800 » William S. Harney, American general († 1889)
• 1827 » Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician († 1906)
• 1834 » Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer († 1906)

• 1681 » Philippe Delano, Dutch Plymouth Colony settler (b. 1602)
• 1701 » John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1628)
• 1711 » Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (b. 1644)
• 1752 » William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667)
• 1773 » George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1709)
• 1793 » Louis de Noailles, French general (b. 1713)
• 1797 » Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
• 1806 » Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and illustrator (b. 1732)
• 1818 » Warren Hastings, English lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 » Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)

• 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)
• January 4 » Great Britain declares war on Spain, thus entering the Seven Years' War.
• March 10 » French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
• May 5 » Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
• May 22 » Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
• July 9 » Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
• September 12 » The Sultanate of Sulu ceded Balambangan Island to the British East India Company

The temperature on August 22, 1762 was about 16.0 °C. There was 158 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.