About the day » Sunday February 3, 1782Calender converter

• Aaltjen Jans, Staphorst
• Anna Maria Hermina Bippen, Wesuwe, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Adriaan Hovendaal, Scherpenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje Heeres VAN DER LAAN, Oosterwijtwerd Groningen Netherlands
• Aaltje Verkerk, Westbroek,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Abraham Hershberger, Meyersdale, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States († 1857)
• Annetje Gerritsd Spilt, Huijsen († 1821)
• Anthony van Raal, Noordwijk
• Aaltjen Lubbers, Nijbroek,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus de BOON, Hardinxveld

• Fredericus Regnerusz Redding (81), Workum, Nijefurd, Friesland, Nederland
• Constantia vander Beke (vander Beek) (74), Temse
• Anton Karbach (1), Kestert, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
• Janna Hendriks (32), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Joannes LANEN (61), Olen, 2250, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Jerusha BUELL (34)
• John HARRIS (54), Upper Gravenhurst, Ampthill. Bedfordshire
• Anna Margaretha Valen (71), Haren(Emsland)-Wesuwe-Haar
• Etienne GUYON (60), Aulnoy, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France
• Elisabeth Sopp (81), Osterspai, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland

• 1747 » Samuel Osgood, American soldier and politician, 1st United States Postmaster General († 1813)
• 1757 » Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon († 1833)
• 1763 » Caroline von Wolzogen, German author († 1847)
• 1777 » John Cheyne, Scottish physician and author († 1836)
• 1790 » Gideon Mantell, English scientist († 1852)
• 1795 » Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Bolivia († 1830)
• 1807 » Joseph E. Johnston, American general and politician († 1891)
• 1809 » Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor († 1847)
• 1811 » Horace Greeley, American journalist and politician († 1872)
• 1816 » Ram Singh Kuka, Indian credited with starting the Non-cooperation movement

• 1737 » Tommaso Ceva, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1648)
• 1802 » Pedro Rodríguez, Spanish statesman and economist (b. 1723)
• 1813 » Juan Bautista Cabral, Argentinian sergeant (b. 1789)
• 1820 » Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1762)
• 1832 » George Crabbe, English surgeon and poet (b. 1754)
• 1862 » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
• 1866 » François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)

• 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 8 » Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity, are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.
• March 16 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
• April 21 » The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
• July 1 » Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
• August 7 » George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
• November 30 » American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).

The temperature on February 3, 1782 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken.