About the day » Sunday August 12, 1781Calender converter

• Adriana Maria de Roij, Tilburg
• Abram (Abraham) van Eijk, Gouderak († 1841)
• Andreas STOLTZ, Erbach Hessen,Duitsland
• Anna Elsabe Böbs, Warnsdorf, Lübeck, Germany
• Ailko ELTJENS, Oude Pekela, 2306, Groningen, Nederland († 1861)
• Ailko Eltjes, Oude-Pekela
• Annigjen Freriks Kamminga, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland († 1858)
• Alida Nicolaas (Aaltje) Boelhouwer, Oud-Loosdrecht, Utr., the Netherlands († 1851)
• adrianus hooglant(d), amsterdam
• Andreas Peters, Beek († 1853)

• Edouardus Adrianus Denoo (63), Zwevezele
• Cornelis Jacobsz. Vianen (41)
• Gertrudis L√∂tters (26), Maasniel, Roermond, Limburg, Nederland
• Alegonda Hugting, Meedhuizen
• Cornelis Laurentius Cools (175), Diessen
• Gerardus Kopjes, Oosterbeek
• Eltje Elzes Kroeze (0), Oostwold, Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Wessinger (72), Birkenfeld, Enzkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
• Elisabetha Straets (70), Heer, Limburg, Nederland
• Garie JACOBSEN (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)

• 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)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Trijntje
10. Adriana
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Antje
14. Elizabeth
15. Aaltje
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 » American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
• March 15 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House: Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory.
• September 5 » Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
• October 17 » American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
• October 19 » American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.
• October 20 » The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Austria.

The temperature on August 12, 1781 was about 23.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: zeer half bewolkt weerlicht. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht.