About the day » Tuesday August 1, 1786Calender converter

• Anna Mary Geysen, Dixmude († 1844)
• Cornelia Tuk, Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1835)
• Ariaantje Helders, Rotterdam
• Adrianus Berkhout, rotterdam (zuid holland) († 1839)
• Cornelia Dekkers, Roosendaal († 1872)
• Arij Monster, Puttershoek († 1849)
• Cornelis Schram, Oud-Vossemeer († 1828)
• Aaltje Alles Dijkstra, Ferwerd
• Cornelis Abrahamsz Schram, Oud Vossemeer († 1828)
• Albertus Haank, Varsseveld, Gelderland, Nederland († 1839)

• Anna Maria Elisabeth Poker (0), Sustrum, NIE, Duitsland
• Anna DE Wante (26), STEKENE
• Alphonsine-Louise-Julie-Félicie d'Egmont (34)
• Anna Elisabeth Mols (28), Mol (België)
• Barbara Henrici(Hendriks) van Buel (33), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jannetje Everts Radder (49), Rotterdam
• Anna M Luijken (2), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Mols (28), Mol (B)
• Felicite Goguet (20), Chambly, Quebec, Canada
• Helena Nelissen, Susteren,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1738 » Jacques François Dugommier, French general († 1794)
• 1744 » Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic († 1829)
• 1770 » William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory († 1838)
• 1779 » Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet († 1843)
• 1779 » Lorenz Oken, German-Swiss botanist, biologist, and ornithologist († 1851)
• 1809 » William B. Travis, American colonel and lawyer († 1836)
• 1815 » Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician († 1882)
• 1818 » Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic († 1889)
• 1819 » Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, and poet († 1891)
• 1831 » Antonio Cotogni, Italian opera singer and educator († 1918)

• 1714 » Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
• 1787 » Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1696)
• 1795 » Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
• 1796 » Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, English colonel and politician (b. 1720)
• 1798 » François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (b. 1753)
• 1807 » John Boorman, English cricketer (b. c. 1754)
• 1807 » John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (b. 1732)
• 1808 » Lady Diana Beauclerk, English painter and illustrator (b. 1734)
• 1812 » Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
• 1851 » William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (b. 1775)

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. Klaas
14. Jean
15. Adrianus
16. John

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Catharina
6. Elisabeth
7. Joanna
8. Marie
9. Neeltje
10. Trijntje
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Aaltje
14. Jannetje
15. Adriana
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)
• May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
• 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 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• September 11 » The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
• November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).

The temperature on August 1, 1786 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.