About the day » Sunday August 15, 1784Calender converter

• Anna Maria GERATS, Neer, Gemeente Leudal, Limburg, Nederland († 1844)
• Aaltje van Ekelenburg, Oud-Beijerland († 1849)
• Anna Catharina Cloet, Ardooie,8850,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1850)
• Aaffien Berends Hamsing, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands († 1826)
• Aleidis Nooij, Nijkerk
• Adriana Arents Siegers, Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1808)
• Aaltje Schonewille, Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands († 1850)
• Anna Catharina Sickesz, Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Arschoot, Brugge († 1827)
• Aaltje Hendriks Vos, Hoogeveen, Nederland († 1858)

• Benoit LAROCHE (65), Virieu,38730,Isère,Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,FRANCE
• Adriana Cornelis Mathijs Ooms (41), Loenhout, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Cornelis Jacobse van der van der Wilt (Wild) (77), Oud-Maarsseveen
• Hilletje de Bree (5)
• Adriana Cornelia Ooms (41), Loenhout, Antwerpen, België
• Evertje Aalts (56), Ermelo
• Gerarda Driessen (3), Wyler, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany
• Evertjen Aalts uit de Schulp (64), Nunspeet
• Evert Brands (82), Bahr en Lathum
• Ids Lieuwes (35), Hemelum, Friesland, Nederland

• 1736 » Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer († 1803)
• 1740 » Matthias Claudius, German poet and author († 1815)
• 1769 » Napoleon, French general and emperor († 1821)
• 1771 » Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet († 1832)
• 1785 » Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author († 1859)
• 1787 » Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, American writer, editor, abolitionist († 1860)
• 1798 » Sangolli Rayanna, Indian warrior († 1831)
• 1807 » Jules Grévy, French lawyer and politician, 4th President of the French Republic († 1891)
• 1824 » John Chisum, American businessman († 1884)
• 1839 » Antonín Petrof, Czech piano maker († 1915)

• 1666 » Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary and astronomer (b. 1591)
• 1714 » Constantin Brâncoveanu, Romanian prince (b. 1654)
• 1728 » Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b. 1656)
• 1758 » Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (b. 1698)
• 1799 » Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet and author (b. 1729)
• 1844 » José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (b. 1733)
• 1852 » Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760)
• 1859 » Nathaniel Claiborne, American farmer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1907 » Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1831)
• 1909 » Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (b. 1866)

• 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 14 » American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
• March 11 » The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
• March 22 » The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
• June 4 » Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
• August 23 » Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
• October 22 » Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

The temperature on August 15, 1784 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.