About the day » Saturday August 2, 1783Calender converter

• Abram Jansz Kooij, Rijnsburg
• Adriana van Kampen, Poeldijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1784)
• Anna Maria "Mary" Trump, Upper Milford, Northampton (Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania († 1860)
• Anna Maria Gertrud Buschhausen, Ratingen, Stadt, Rheinland, Deutschland
• abigael BOOGAARD, rotterdam († 1861)
• Catharina de Meijer, Oosterhout,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1860)
• Apollonie sercu, brugge, W-Vl, Belgie († 1869)
• Bethia Todd, Waterbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1838)
• Abram Jansz Kooij, Rijnsburg
• Anna van Leeuwen, Leimuiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1855)

• Elle Hindriks (39), Eenum, 't Zandt
• Anna (Anna) Gijsbers (5), Hees-Nijmegen, Nederland
• Anna Krabbendam (84), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Hendrik Sprangers (63), Dordrecht
• Catharine Derynck, Jabbeke
• Elisabeth van Breenen (Brenen) (46), Gouda
• Gisbert Jaques Vignon (6), Maasstricht
• Andreas Gijsbertsz. Spruijt (1), Waddinxveen 13 maanden oud
• Gijsbert Jacob de Vignon (4), Maastricht, Limb
• Anthonia Roels (61), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 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)
• 1861 » Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist and academic († 1944)

• 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)

• 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)
• February 7 » American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
• August 4 » Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people. The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
• 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.
• October 15 » The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
• December 23 » George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.

The temperature on August 2, 1783 was about 23.0 °C. Weather type: omtrent helder weerlicht.