About the day » Thursday June 8, 1780Calender converter

• Arend Jacobs Klaver, Jisp
• Cheney Shepard, New Marlborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1850)
• Elizabeth Carmichael, Orangeburg, South Carolina († 1782)
• Andrea Helena van der Dussen, Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1861)
• Arend Klaver, Jisp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Krijns, Canne (B.) († 1852)
• Abraham Vandervorst, Melsbroek († 1788)
• Eeldert Wybes van Der Werf, Sneek,,Friesland,PAYS-BAS († 1818)
• Atris Jansen, Nijkerk
• Eidina Hesse († 1808)

• Cornelis Maartensz Blom (40), Oudeschild Texel
• Ary Faas (64), Oostburg
• Jean MASSART (67), Juprelle (Fexhe-Slins),4458,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Maarten van den Bos, 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Hillegje Rykes Dieters, Assen
• Arend Pietersz Van PEL (4)
• Maarten Fransz(2) van den Bos (46), 's-Gravenzande
• Cornelis Maartensz Blom (41), Oudeschild, Texel, Netherlands
• Joanna Arents (0), Sint-Lievens-Esse,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Ludwig Pfaff (76), Edingen, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany

• 1717 » John Collins, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island († 1795)
• 1724 » John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge († 1794)
• 1745 » Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer († 1818)
• 1757 » Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal († 1824)
• 1788 » Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky († 1869)
• 1810 » Robert Schumann, German composer and critic († 1856)
• 1829 » John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator († 1896)
• 1831 » Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient († 1917)
• 1842 » John Q. A. Brackett, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts († 1918)
• 1851 » Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physician and physicist († 1940)

• 1714 » Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
• 1716 » Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1658)
• 1727 » August Hermann Francke, German-Lutheran pietist, philanthropist, and scholar (b. 1663)
• 1768 » Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and scholar (b. 1717)
• 1771 » George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1716)
• 1795 » Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
• 1809 » Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (b. 1737)
• 1831 » Sarah Siddons, Welsh actress (b. 1755)
• 1835 » Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (b. 1761)
• 1845 » Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)

• 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)
• March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
• May 19 » New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
• September 23 » American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
• October 10 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
• October 16 » American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
• December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York

The temperature on June 8, 1780 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.