About the day » Tuesday August 26, 1783Calender converter

• Diderica Lodders, Rotterdam
• Cornelis Gijsbertsz van Heusden, Oostzaandam († 1783)
• Arie Jansz. Keizerwaard, Oud-Beijerland
• Bernardus Dobbelaere, Merendree
• Deborah CRAM, Raymond, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States († 1831)
• Catharina van Dijk, Aerle († 1814)
• Dirk van de GREIJN, Wadenoijen
• Charles Carnan Ridgely Jr, Hampton, Baltimore, Maryland, United States († 1819)
• Arent Roovers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1856)
• Arent Roovers, Rotterdam

• Cornelis Rijlaarsdam, Hazerswoude
• Franciscus Kinderman (28), Sint-Laureins, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Geertrui (Gertruida, Gertrudis Geertruijdis) Janssen Bos (Bosch) (33), Afferden
• Anna Barbara Vacquier, Zwevezele, West Flanders, Belgium
• Anne Strijbis (60), Nrd-Scharwoude
• Crijn Dirks Haasnoot (88), Katwijk aan Zee, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Rijlaarsdam (7), Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Cornelia Jansse Oerlemans (84), Nispen-Essen
• Anna Witmakers (51), Schinnen, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Bossers (56), Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1728 » Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1777)
• 1736 » Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French mineralogist and geologist († 1790)
• 1740 » Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon († 1810)
• 1743 » Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist († 1794)
• 1751 » Manuel Abad y Queipo, Spanish-born Mexican bishop († 1825)
• 1775 » William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic († 1851)
• 1792 » Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan soldier and politician, 4th President of Uruguay († 1857)
• 1797 » Saint Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia († 1879)
• 1819 » Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom († 1861)
• 1854 » Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer († 1932)

• 1666 » Frans Hals, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1580)
• 1714 » Constantin Brâncoveanu, Ruler of Wallachia (b. 1654)
• 1714 » Edward Fowler, English bishop and author (b. 1632)
• 1723 » Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)
• 1785 » George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, English soldier and politician, 3rd Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1716)
• 1810 » Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)
• 1813 » Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (b. 1791)
• 1850 » Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)
• 1865 » Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791)
• 1878 » Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1846)

• 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)
• May 26 » A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated the end of fighting in the American Revolution.
• June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
• June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
• July 25 » American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
• November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
• December 4 » At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.

The temperature on August 26, 1783 was about 15.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.