About the day » Sunday August 17, 1766Calender converter

• Aaltje Jans Kooter, Schoorl, Nederland († 1810)
• Aeltjen Voors, Borculo
• Aagje KOPPE, Bleskensgraaf († 1838)
• Aalbertje Maassen van de Geest, Hoogland
• Abraham Miras, Kruiningen
• Aaltje Kooters, Schoorl († 1810)
• Aagje Aartsd Koppen, Bleskensgraaf, zh.nld († 1838)
• Aaltje Rietberg, Wijhe († 1846)
• Aart Willemsz Blijleven, Noorden/Nieuwkoop
• aagje aartsdr. KOPPE, bleskensgraaf(ZH) († 1838)

• JEAN TARTE (0), ON
• Hendrik Lagerburg (5)
• Joanna WAUTERS (42), Pepingen
• Aafje Krijns PEETOOM (36), Zwaagdijk-Oost,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Vroegop (33), Tholen
• Anna VAN DER EECKEN, Denderhoutem
• Edo Wijnhagen (48), Marienchor NRW (D)
• Barbertje Gerrits Beset, Amsterdam, Karthuizer Kerkhof
• Joannes Michael Diederen (4), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Clara Goijertsdr van Rijswijk (82), Veen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

• 1686 » Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and educator († 1768)
• 1753 » Josef Dobrovský, Bohemian philologist and historian († 1828)
• 1768 » Louis Desaix, French general († 1800)
• 1786 » Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician († 1836)
• 1786 » Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld († 1861)
• 1801 » Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer and feminist († 1865)
• 1828 » Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist and physician († 1897)
• 1840 » Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist († 1922)
• 1845 » Henry Cadwalader Chapman, American physician and naturalist († 1909)
• 1849 » William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland († 1919)

• 1720 » Anne Dacier, French scholar and translator (b. 1654)
• 1723 » Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668)
• 1768 » Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703)
• 1785 » Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710)
• 1786 » Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712)
• 1809 » Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (b. 1728)
• 1814 » John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (b. 1732)
• 1834 » Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (b. 1802)
• 1838 » Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749)
• 1850 » José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778)

• 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.
• May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
• 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 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 August 17, 1766 was about 18.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: donker mottig.