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• Gerardus de Roos, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Derkje Meertens, Nieuw-Scheemda († 1847)
• Charles Frédéric comte de Pinto, à Potsdam, Brandenburg, Allemagne († 1820)
• Geertruij Coesmans, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Eugenie Constance Despiere, Woumen († 1849)
• Ann Hamer, Bury, Lancashire, England († 1837)
• Francois Marie Bertier, Herlies, 59134, Nord, FRANCE († 1781)
• Eugenia Regina Jonckheere, Eernegem († 1848)
• Cornelia de Wagter, Kruiningen
• Eugenia Regina Jonckheere, Eernegem, Ichtegem, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1848)

• Arent Arents (0)
• Cornelis van Dam (0), Den Helder
• Gerard Arnold Jan Versfelt (45)
• Elisabeth van der Kun (73), Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• August Wilhelm van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel (65)
• Gerard Arnold Jan Versfelt predikant (45)
• August Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (65)
• Antonius Gerardus van Hamme (67), Leefdaal, 3061, België
• CORNEEL CONVENS, Schilde
• Balthasar de Bijl (0), Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1702 » Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau († 1769)
• 1703 » Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1775)
• 1740 » Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general († 1817)
• 1754 » Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. († 1825)
• 1788 » Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic († 1853)
• 1815 » Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet and historian († 1894)
• 1820 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and mountaineer († 1893)
• 1828 » Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general († 1895)
• 1834 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty († 1904)
• 1835 » Elisha Gray, American businessman, co-founded Western Electric († 1901)

• 1696 » Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (b. 1630)
• 1769 » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1689)
• 1788 » Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
• 1799 » Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1745)
• 1815 » Guillaume Brune, French general and politician (b. 1763)
• 1823 » Lazare Carnot, French mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention (b. 1753)
• 1834 » Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (b. 1793)
• 1849 » Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Ottoman Albanian commander (b. 1769)
• 1854 » Heinrich Clauren, German author (b. 1771)
• 1859 » Horace Mann, American educator and politician (b. 1796)

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. Antje
13. Neeltje
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)
• March 13 » William Herschel discovers Uranus.
• June 3 » Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
• August 5 » The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
• August 24 » American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
• September 6 » The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
• October 20 » The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Austria.

The temperature on August 2, 1781 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.