About the day » Monday February 3, 1766Calender converter

• Adrianus Oomens, Oosterhout, Nederland († 1766)
• Anna Maria Guerts, Boekel, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Barbara BOSSIN, Sint-Stevens-Woluwe († 1837)
• Agatha Gertrudis HORSTERMANS, Grubbenvorst, Limburg, Netherlands († 1834)
• Christian Van Gundy, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States († 1836)
• Bernardus Vermeulen, Oudenbosch († 1770)
• Elisabeth VAN Wemmel, Baardegem
• Conrad Heinrich Döring, Diepholz, Niedersachsen, Duitsland
• Dirk DE LANGE († 1815)
• Cornelis Jansz Rood, Den Helder, Nederland

• Godfried Goris (70), Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Augustina BROECKX (61), Merksplas, Belgie
• Anna Otilia Wilhelm Balder Von Rabescheid (90), Sprendlingen, Duitsland
• Hermann Hinrich Kaemna (2), Oberneuland, Kirchspiel Oberneuland, Duitsland
• Anna Desmon (31), St. Geyrac, Aquitanië
• Antje Tobiasdochter VOS (42), Paasloo, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Henri Quirin NICOLAY (70), STAVELOT, Liège, Belgique
• Anna Maria Hiss (85), Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland
• Anna Elisabetha WAGNER (54), Oermingen,67970,Bas-Rhin,Alsace,FRANCE
• Cornelia VAN WESTHOVEN (66), Jakarta

• 1721 » Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general († 1773)
• 1736 » Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer and theorist († 1809)
• 1747 » Samuel Osgood, American soldier and politician, 1st United States Postmaster General († 1813)
• 1757 » Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon († 1833)
• 1763 » Caroline von Wolzogen, German author († 1847)
• 1777 » John Cheyne, Scottish physician and author († 1836)
• 1790 » Gideon Mantell, English scientist († 1852)
• 1795 » Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Bolivia († 1830)
• 1807 » Joseph E. Johnston, American general and politician († 1891)
• 1809 » Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor († 1847)

• 1618 » Philip II, duke of Pomerania (b. 1573)
• 1619 » Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1564)
• 1737 » Tommaso Ceva, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1648)
• 1802 » Pedro Rodríguez, Spanish statesman and economist (b. 1723)
• 1813 » Juan Bautista Cabral, Argentinian sergeant (b. 1789)
• 1820 » Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1762)
• 1832 » George Crabbe, English surgeon and poet (b. 1754)
• 1862 » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
• 1866 » François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (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)
• March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
• March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
• July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
• December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
• December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
• December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

The temperature on February 3, 1766 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: sneeuw betrokken.