About the day » Monday July 8, 1771Calender converter

• Anna de Konink, Halsteren, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1837)
• Anne Louise duchesse de Montmorency, Paris († 1828)
• Catharina VAN REE, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1827)
• Cornelia de Koninck, Halsteren,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1837)
• Besman Kieviet, Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Meijboom
• Anna Cornelia de Koning, Halsteren († 1837)
• Emerentia van Creij, Oss
• Eleke van Gameren, Gellicum, Gelderland, Nederland († 1843)
• Geerd Hinterster Kalter, Haar († 1834)

• Catherine RIVIERE
• Gijsbertha Muller, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Johann Rudolf Pagenstecher (59), Gröna, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• Hendrik (Willemzen) Geltink-Brits (71), Loo (Bathmen)
• Anne CHATEAU, Ruffec, 16700, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France, 16292
• John Laing (0)
• Judith Jacobs Aerts Ebben (91), Boxmeer, NL
• Froukjen (Vrouckjen) Harmens, Kollum, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelia Goossen (0), Axel, Zeeland, Nederland
• Ferdinand Jozef Van Geertsom (25), Beveren Waas, België

• 1760 » Christian Kramp, French mathematician and academic († 1826)
• 1766 » Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon († 1842)
• 1779 » Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect († 1851)
• 1819 » Francis Leopold McClintock, Irish admiral and explorer († 1907)
• 1830 » Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Assistant Secretary of State († 1915)
• 1831 » John Pemberton, American chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola († 1888)
• 1836 » Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies († 1914)
• 1838 » Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company († 1898)
• 1838 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company († 1917)
• 1839 » John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company († 1937)

• 1689 » Edward Wooster, English-American settler (b. 1622)
• 1695 » Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1629)
• 1716 » Robert South, English preacher and theologian (b. 1634)
• 1721 » Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1649)
• 1784 » Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735)
• 1794 » Richard Mique, French architect (b. 1728)
• 1820 » Octavia Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor (b. 1816)
• 1822 » Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (b. 1792)
• 1850 » Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
• 1859 » Oscar I of Sweden (b. 1799)

• 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)
• February 12 » Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
• May 16 » The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
• July 14 » Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
• July 17 » Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
• October 17 » Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.

The temperature on July 8, 1771 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw.