About the day » Saturday August 12, 1775Calender converter

• Anna Maria Dillen, Knegsel
• Anna Maria Martens, Westerhoven
• Clara Maria Pauwels, Mariekerke († 1843)
• Cornelis de Jongh, Oosterhout († 1821)
• Gaugericus Coppens, Haaltert († 1807)
• Hendrik Hilberts Poortman, De Wijk, Schiphorst, Oude Knijpe, Netherlands († 1860)
• Hendrik Haitzema, Winschoten,, Groningen, Nederland († 1837)
• Anna Maria Porten, Schweich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany († 1860)
• Anna Lourens, Leeuwarden
• Gregorius de Visser, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Gerritje Overzijl, Rotterdam
• Arnoldina Margaretha MEUGENS (0), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Anna Balten Hertoghs (76), Essen, Antwerpen, België
• Peter Lott (48), Flatbush (Kings County) (Colony of New York) (British Colonial America)
• Theodor Arnold Hilscher (62)
• Barend Ronge, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Joanna ASSELMANS (87), Denderwindeke, 9400, Ninove, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Johann Wilhelm Hermann, Eich
• marie agnes makaux (44)
• Theodor Arnold Hölscher (62)

• 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)
• 1860 » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler († 1907)

• 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)

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

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

• 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)
• April 14 » The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
• July 5 » The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
• July 8 » The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
• August 23 » American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
• September 11 » Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.

The temperature on August 12, 1775 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw.