About the day » Thursday August 12, 1773Calender converter

• Albertje WILLING, Zweeloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1854)
• Albert Klazes Brouwer, Oudehorne, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1844)
• Albert Klazes Brouwer, Oudehorne († 1844)
• Dirk Doeijes, Buitenpost, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Holmans, Woensel ( nu Eindhoven) († 1852)
• Antonius De Backer, Eppegem
• Berend Beeukes, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1842)
• Cornelis van Leeuwen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelius Vroonhof, Noort
• Aartjen Muller, Beekbergen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1845)

• JOSEPH - FRANCOIS LEPERS (73), Tourcoing, 59200
• Cornelia Rotteveel (57), Schipluiden
• Detmer Boelems Hubbeling (58), Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Catherine-Geneviève Pelletier (84), Montréal, Canada
• Hubertus Huijbers, Bree
• Elisabeth van den Akker (0), Delft,-
• Klaasje Jacobs Groot (47), Huizen
• Joanna Osings (Oossens) (56), Horst, Limburg, Netherlands
• Maria Catharina Lenders (42), Poederlee
• Claesje Jacobs Lammertsz (47), Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1686 » John Balguy, English philosopher and author († 1748)
• 1696 » Maurice Greene, English organist and composer († 1755)
• 1762 » George IV of the United Kingdom († 1830)
• 1773 » Karl Faber, Prussian historian and academic († 1853)
• 1774 » Robert Southey, English poet and author († 1843)
• 1831 » Helena Blavatsky, Russian theosophist and scholar († 1891)
• 1852 » Michael J. McGivney, American priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus († 1890)
• 1856 » Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist († 1917)
• 1857 » Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter and educator († 1924)
• 1859 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author († 1929)

• 1689 » Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
• 1778 » Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire (b. 1714)
• 1809 » Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
• 1810 » Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
• 1822 » Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (b. 1769)
• 1827 » William Blake, English poet and painter (b. 1757)
• 1829 » Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (b. 1760)
• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)

• 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 17 » Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
• May 10 » The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
• June 1 » Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
• October 12 » America's first insane asylum opens.
• October 14 » The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• December 16 » American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.

The temperature on August 12, 1773 was about 24.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.