About the day » Monday August 28, 1786Calender converter

• Annetje Wijnkoop, Putten († 1854)
• Abraham Fonda, Albany/NY
• Antonius Joannes Cannebeek, Elten, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Anna Maria Lomans, Someren († 1841)
• Adrianus (Arie) ZUIDGEEST, Schipluiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1849)
• anna dorothea malgo (ook malcho), amsterdam
• Maria Pertronella de Vliegher, Stekene (B) († 1787)
• Annetje Wijnkoop, Putten († 1854)
• Anna Barbara Tobback, Boortmeerbeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium († 1861)
• Aaltje Mastebroek, Blokzijl, O., NL († 1786)

• Cornelia Dirkse Beunis (Beunisse) (30), Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant)
• Alida Jansdr. Groenewegen (31), Wassenaar aangifte
• Christiane Jakobine Lechler (70)
• Anna Nielsdatter (8), Sludstrup, Slagelse, Sorø, Danmark
• Gerhardina Fockelina Velingius (38), Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Cornelia LOIJEN (0), Mopertingen, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Catharina Margaretha Engelbrecht (0), Nordheim, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
• Gerardus Van Holsbecke (78), Hansbeke, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Christian Blecher (24), Banfe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Jacob Uittenbogaard (86), Giessendam, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1739 » Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer († 1818)
• 1749 » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat († 1832)
• 1774 » Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition († 1821)
• 1801 » Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher († 1877)
• 1814 » Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author († 1873)
• 1816 » Charles Sladen, English-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Victoria († 1884)
• 1822 » Graham Berry, English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of Victoria († 1904)
• 1827 » Catherine Mikhailovna, Russian grand duchess († 1894)
• 1833 » Edward Burne-Jones, English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement († 1898)
• 1837 » Francis von Hohenstein, duke of Teck († 1900)

• 1735 » Edwin Stead, English landowner and cricketer (b. 1701)
• 1757 » David Hartley, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1705)
• 1784 » Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (b. 1713)
• 1793 » Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (b. 1740)
• 1805 » Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader and author (b. 1722)
• 1818 » Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American fur trader, founded Chicago (b. 1750)
• 1820 » Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (b. 1754)
• 1839 » William Smith, English geologist and engineer (b. 1769)
• 1888 » Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)
• 1891 » Robert Caldwell, English missionary and linguist (b. 1814)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Catharina
6. Marie
7. Elisabeth
8. Joanna
9. Neeltje
10. Trijntje
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Aaltje
14. Adriana
15. Jannetje
16. Elizabeth

• 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 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
• June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
• June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
• September 11 » The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
• November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

The temperature on August 28, 1786 was about 18.0 °C. There was 154 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.