About the day » Sunday August 8, 1773Calender converter

• Anskjen, Veenwouden, Dantumadeel (Frl) († 1809)
• Ann PLATT
• Aaltje Douwes Fokkema, Twijzel,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland († 1845)
• Anna Christina Kraus, Enschede
• Anna Catharina de Roij, LOON OP ZAND
• Aaltjen Bujink, Hengelo
• Anna Catharina Bikkel, Amsterdam
• Anskje Feyes (Venema), Veenwouden
• Anskje Feyes (Feies) Venema, Veenwouden, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1809)
• Anskje Feyes, Veenwouden, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1809)

• Petrus Van de Ven (68), Puurs, 2870, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Cornelia van Alphen (38), Utrecht
• Martijntje Jansdr Smit (79), Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Victoria CAMMINGA (65), Wirdum (Leeuwarden) Friesland Netherlands
• Jacobus Barentsz. Harkes, Groenland
• Geert Jans (1)
• Anna Katharina Sudmeier (59)
• Gerrit van Eijk (0), Hilligersberg
• Gertruida Kelderman (34), Zeddam, Gelderland, Nederland
• Pleuntje Kornelisdr Noordam (39)

• 1709 » Hermann Anton Gelinek, German-Italian monk and violinist († 1779)
• 1720 » Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician († 1796)
• 1754 » Hipólito Ruiz López, Spanish botanist († 1816)
• 1758 » Friedrich Georg Weitsch, German painter († 1828)
• 1779 » Louis de Freycinet, French navigator and explorer († 1842)
• 1790 » Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician († 1838)
• 1807 » Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author († 1892)
• 1814 » Esther Hobart Morris, American suffragette and judge († 1902)
• 1822 » George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer († 1894)
• 1839 » Nelson A. Miles, American general († 1925)

• 1684 » George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, English politician (b. 1622)
• 1719 » Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)
• 1746 » Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (b. 1694)
• 1747 » Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian raid leader (b. 1678)
• 1759 » Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (b. 1704)
• 1827 » George Canning, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1828 » Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist and psychologist (b. 1743)
• 1858 » Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, Haitian Empress (b. 1758)
• 1863 » Angus MacAskill, Scottish-Canadian giant (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1797)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
12. Aaltje
13. Antje
14. Adriana
15. Elizabeth
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 hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17" is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
• 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.
• 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 8, 1773 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: wat dauw.