About the day » Sunday August 26, 1787Calender converter

• Aagje Geus, den Bommel († 1823)
• adriana LOEF, drimmelen († 1865)
• Anna Catharina Nußbaum, Niedermöllrich († 1836)
• Albertus Meindert Smit, Zutphen († 1849)
• Adrianus Floren Mouthaan, Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Moeskops, Diessen, Gemeente Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Boot, Alkmaar († 1867)
• Aaltien Telvoren, Meppel († 1865)
• Adriana Zwigtman, Wissenkerke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1847)
• Aartje Oosthoek, Boskoop

• Gerrit Johannesz van Sparenburg, het Karthuizer kerkhof in Amsterdam
• Henry Varner
• Klaas Feitses (60), Noorderdrachten
• Joannes KOENS, Roosendaal,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Joannes Beurskens (49), Baarlo
• Klaas Feitzes van der Velde (Venekamp) (60), Rottevalle
• Joannes-Baptista VAN YPERZEELE (0), Sint-Kornelis-Horebeke,9767,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Francesca Lichnowska (62), Futog (Futok), Noord-Servië
• Klaas Feitzes Veenekamp
• Angelina VERNIERS, Lochristi

• 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)
• January 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
• February 3 » Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
• June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
• July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
• August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• December 18 » New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

The temperature on August 26, 1787 was about 12.0 °C. There was 220 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.