About the day » Wednesday October 21, 1772Calender converter

• Arnoldus Tevissen, Schimmert,, Limburg, Nederland
• christiaan de jong, strijen (zuid holland) († 1832)
• Anna Maria Albers, Lohne, Oldenburg, Germany
• Anna Catharina Florentina Wouters, Antwerpen,, Antwerpen, België († 1817)
• Anna Catharina Joris, Oorderen († 1824)
• Casper Kampman, Rijnsburg († 1845)
• Catharina HOUBEN, Ospel, Limburg, Netherlands († 1828)
• Catherine Unknown, Pennsylvania († 1851)
• Antonia Robben, Drunen († 1838)
• Anna Gardinia BRINKMAN, Warnsveld, Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1840)

• Dionysius Jan Peter RIJNEN (60), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Joannes Baptista VAN DUN (35), Ravels, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Adriana Willemse Hoebeke (31), Kruiningen
• * Joshua Hadley Sr (69), Hadlet, Catham, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Heijman Salomons Ameland (75), Amsterdam
• Dorothea Hessen (12), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis EVERSTEIJN (40), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Boogaart (3), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Egtbertina de Lint (0), Klundert
• Christianus Loossens (75), Antwerpen (Antwerpen, België)

• 1712 » James Steuart, Scottish economist and author († 1780)
• 1725 » Franz Moritz von Lacy, Austrian field marshal († 1801)
• 1757 » Pierre Augereau, French general († 1816)
• 1762 » Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch general, lawyer, and politician, 36th Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies († 1818)
• 1772 » Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, and critic († 1834)
• 1775 » Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest, composer, and critic († 1844)
• 1790 » Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician, French Head of State († 1869)
• 1811 » Filippo Colini, Italian operatic baritone († 1863)
• 1821 » Sims Reeves, English tenor and actor († 1900)
• 1833 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize († 1896)

• 1687 » Edmund Waller, English poet and politician (b. 1606)
• 1765 » Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
• 1775 » Peyton Randolph, American lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
• 1777 » Samuel Foote, English actor and playwright (b. 1720)
• 1805 » George Duff, Scottish captain (b. 1764)
• 1805 » Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (b. 1758)
• 1805 » John Cooke, English captain (b. 1763)
• 1821 » Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (b. 1752)
• 1835 » Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (b. 1775)
• 1861 » Edward Dickinson Baker, American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)

1. Jan
2. Hendrik
3. Pieter
4. Cornelis
5. Johannes
6. Joannes
7. Willem
8. Jacob
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Jean
13. Klaas
14. Dirk
15. John
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Catharina
8. Elisabeth
9. Grietje
10. Trijntje
11. Antje
12. Elizabeth
13. Neeltje
14. Adriana
15. Aaltje
16. Jannetje

• 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)
• January 1 » The first traveler's cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, were issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.
• June 9 » The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
• June 12 » French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men killed by Māori in New Zealand.
• August 19 » Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
• August 21 » King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
• September 1 » The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.

The temperature on October 21, 1772 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: mistig. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw.