About the day » Sunday August 22, 1779Calender converter

• Angélique Joseph LEFEBVRE, La Bassée,59480,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE († 1820)
• Aaltje Berenkamp, Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• aimée désirée HECQ, Crespin (F-59) Hauts de France
• Anna Maria Spits, Gronsveld (Eijsden-Margraten), Limburg, Nederland († 1806)
• Anna Engelina Geertruid Tjassens, Annen
• ALIDA! VAN DER LINDEN, VLAARDINGEN († 1813)
• Alida Cornelisdr. van der Linden, Vlaardingen († 1813)
• Adriana Johanna Hulst, Dongen († 1857)
• Aaltjen Zemmelink, Zelhem († 1820)
• Adriana Petronella Dreyer (Dreier, Dreur), Soerabaja, Oost-Java (Nederlands Indië) († 1857)

• Agnes Reiniera Woltera van Lintelo (39), Heerde, k. Vosbergen
• Agnes Reiniera van Lintelo (39), Vorchten
• Agnes Reiniera Baroness van Lintelo (39), Kasteel Vosbergen, Heerde
• Anne DEBLAYE (0), Bazegney
• Anna Sophia Botha (55), Cape Town, South Africa
• Henricus Rudolphus van der Aa, Casteren
• Agnes Reinier Woltera van Lintelo (39), Kasteel Vosbergen, Heerde, Nederland
• Hendrik Deboit (Debout) (0), Kerkom, België
• Bernard Augustinus Van Dorsselaer (1), Sint-Gillis
• Adamus (Daem) Daamen (76), Didam

• 1760 » Pope Leo XII († 1829)
• 1764 » Charles Percier, French architect and interior designer († 1838)
• 1771 » Henry Maudslay, English engineer († 1831)
• 1773 » Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer († 1858)
• 1778 » James Kirke Paulding, American poet, playwright, and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy († 1860)
• 1788 » Thomas Tredgold, English engineer and author († 1829)
• 1800 » Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar († 1865)
• 1800 » William S. Harney, American general († 1889)
• 1827 » Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician († 1906)
• 1834 » Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer († 1906)

• 1701 » John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1628)
• 1711 » Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (b. 1644)
• 1752 » William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667)
• 1773 » George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1709)
• 1793 » Louis de Noailles, French general (b. 1713)
• 1797 » Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
• 1806 » Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and illustrator (b. 1732)
• 1818 » Warren Hastings, English lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 » Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
• 1850 » Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (b. 1802)

• 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)
• February 14 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
• June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
• September 23 » American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USSBonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
• October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

The temperature on August 22, 1779 was about 21.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.