About the day » Thursday May 8, 1783Calender converter

• Adrianus Adrianuszn Schapendonk, Udenhout († 1853)
• Andrias van den Burgt, Naarden (NH, NLD)
• Bernardus Josephus DEVOLDERE, Brugge,8000,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE († 1844)
• Adriana van Wessem, Heerewaarden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Annaatje Karnekamp, Broek in Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1868)
• Anna Elisabeth TRUYENS, Geel,2440,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1870)
• Aagje Mooij, Callantsoog, Nederland († 1826)
• Bernardus Dewilde, Hooglede,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Catharina Daniël Vervoort, Sint Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1862)
• Anna Elisabeth Boons, Meerhout, België († 1858)

• Jan Scholtens (40)
• Jacobus CALLIEUW (57)
• Gerrit Kollaard (72), Delfshaven
• Jannigje van Vulpen (41), Leersum, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Ange Simard (61), Baie St-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada
• Celestine Des Camps (20), Aubers, 59249, Nord, FRANCE
• Hendrik Momma (74), Amsterdam
• Angela Catharina Vanpeperstraete (5), Woumen
• Aagje Sijmondr Vis (53), Medeblik (N-H) Nederland
• Jannetje van Vulpen (42), Leersum, UT, :NL

• 1745 » Carl Stamitz, German violinist and composer († 1801)
• 1753 » Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and rebel leader († 1811)
• 1786 » John Vianney, French priest and saint († 1859)
• 1815 » Edward Tompkins, American lawyer and politician († 1872)
• 1818 » Samuel Leonard Tilley, Canadian pharmacist and politician, 3rd Premier of New Brunswick († 1896)
• 1821 » William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist († 1885)
• 1824 » William Walker, American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary († 1860)
• 1825 » George Bruce Malleson, English-Indian colonel and author († 1898)
• 1828 » Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk and saint († 1898)
• 1828 » Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate († 1910)

• 1766 » Samuel Chandler, English minister and author (b. 1693)
• 1773 » Ali Bey al-Kabir, Egyptian sultan (b. 1728)
• 1781 » Richard Jago, English priest and poet (b. 1715)
• 1782 » Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
• 1785 » Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1719)
• 1785 » Pietro Longhi, Italian painter (b. 1701)
• 1788 » Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1723)
• 1794 » Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (b. 1743)
• 1819 » Kamehameha I, king of the Hawaiian Islands
• 1822 » John Stark, American general (b. 1728)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Trijntje
9. Joanna
10. Grietje
11. Adriana
12. Neeltje
13. Aaltje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
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 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
• April 18 » Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
• June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
• August 18 » A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
• September 3 » American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.

The temperature on May 8, 1783 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.