About the day » Tuesday August 15, 1775Calender converter

• "Jacques Philippe Achille Louis" Auguste Barthélémy François d'Héricy († 1842)
• Arij Cornelisz de Koning, IJsselmonde, 2992, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Bertels, Gierle († 1813)
• Antonius OP DEN CAMP, Stein,1556-1795,Vrije Rijksheerlijkheid,Verenigde Nederlanden († 1804)
• Anna Catharina Nauwelaerts, Aartselaar, 2630, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1827)
• Anna Jozepha Poppe, Zele († 1776)
• Anna Maria Renders, Pulderbos
• Antonij de Kort, Sint-Michielsgestel († 1853)
• Anna Catharina de Bruijn, Steenbergen
• Adriana CLARIJS, Bergen op Zoom († 1857)

• Louis Stanislas Joseph Le Comte (1), Herlies, 59134, Nord, FRANCE
• Herman Engelbert Wiltinck (68), Bocholt, Gemeinde Bocholt, Duitsland
• Isabella Clara Coene (69), Moerkerke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Barend Lambertsz Meijlink (40), Amsterdam
• Maria Jansd Luijt (81), Ouderkerk aan de Ijssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Wilhelmus HENDRICKX, Etten-Leur,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Henricus Baeten (56), Horst, Limburg, Niederlande
• Catharina Maas (39), Meddo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Maria Jans Luijt (81), Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Grietje FOKKES (7), Weiwerd, Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland

• 1717 » Blind Jack, English engineer († 1810)
• 1736 » Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer († 1803)
• 1740 » Matthias Claudius, German poet and author († 1815)
• 1769 » Napoleon, French general and emperor († 1821)
• 1771 » Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet († 1832)
• 1785 » Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author († 1859)
• 1787 » Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, American writer, editor, abolitionist († 1860)
• 1798 » Sangolli Rayanna, Indian warrior († 1831)
• 1807 » Jules Grévy, French lawyer and politician, 4th President of the French Republic († 1891)
• 1824 » John Chisum, American businessman († 1884)

• 1666 » Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary and astronomer (b. 1591)
• 1714 » Constantin Brâncoveanu, Romanian prince (b. 1654)
• 1728 » Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b. 1656)
• 1758 » Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (b. 1698)
• 1799 » Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet and author (b. 1729)
• 1844 » José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (b. 1733)
• 1852 » Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760)
• 1859 » Nathaniel Claiborne, American farmer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1907 » Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1831)
• 1909 » Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (b. 1866)

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. Marie
8. Elisabeth
9. Joanna
10. Grietje
11. Neeltje
12. Antje
13. Adriana
14. Aaltje
15. Elizabeth
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)
• June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
• September 25 » American Revolution: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off.
• October 18 » African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
• October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
• 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.
• December 9 » American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.

The temperature on August 15, 1775 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw.