About the day » Sunday August 2, 1772Calender converter

• Aalbert Ligtenberg, Tienhoven,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Prinsen, 's-Gravenmoer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1861)
• Anna Maria Adelheid Weyrinck, Metelen († 1853)
• Albert Averdijk, Wesepe (Gem.Olst) († 1841)
• Aaltje van Daatselaar, Woudenberg
• Anna Ditvorst, Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharine Bartels, Hakenweg, Niedersachsen, Duitsland († 1850)
• Albert Wubbes Kremer, Blijham gem. Wedde († 1822)
• ADRIANA VAN AEL, Vosselaar
• Anna Cornelia Van Sloun, Born, Limburg, Netherlands († 1821)

• Karel du Pardieu Heer van Berteville (52), Fort Liberté, Haiti
• Jacobus Van Ballaert (37), Weelde, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Gese Els (27), Getelo
• Christian Baumgarten (1), Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Aldegondis Caris (14), Weert
• Jacobus Joannis Van Ballaert (96), Baarle-Hertog, Antwerpen, België
• Jesaias Wildschut (42), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jesaias Adriaansz WILDSCHUT (42), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Marie Suzanne Adam, Surice, Romedenne, Namur, Belgique
• Maria Jonker (74), Den Helder

• 1702 » Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau († 1769)
• 1703 » Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1775)
• 1740 » Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general († 1817)
• 1754 » Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. († 1825)
• 1788 » Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic († 1853)
• 1815 » Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet and historian († 1894)
• 1820 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and mountaineer († 1893)
• 1828 » Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general († 1895)
• 1834 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty († 1904)
• 1835 » Elisha Gray, American businessman, co-founded Western Electric († 1901)

• 1696 » Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (b. 1630)
• 1769 » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1689)
• 1788 » Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
• 1799 » Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1745)
• 1815 » Guillaume Brune, French general and politician (b. 1763)
• 1823 » Lazare Carnot, French mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention (b. 1753)
• 1834 » Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (b. 1793)
• 1849 » Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Ottoman Albanian commander (b. 1769)
• 1854 » Heinrich Clauren, German author (b. 1771)
• 1859 » Horace Mann, American educator and politician (b. 1796)

• 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 August 2, 1772 was about 19.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen omtrent helder.