About the day » Sunday August 12, 1792Calender converter

• Aafje Jansd Preker, Sint Maarten, nh.nld († 1859)
• Anna Boeda, Haarlem
• Aletta Gertruida van der Bijl, Swartland (Zuid-Afrika)
• Aleydis Daamen, Hulhuizen,Gemeente Lingewaard,Gelderland,Netherlands († 1861)
• Anke Pieters Schaaf (Schaaff), Vlieland († 1870)
• Aletta de Breen (de Breeden), Blauwkapel († 1866)
• Adriana RAAP, Den Bommel
• Aleydis Daamen, Hulhuizen († 1861)
• Adriana Rijke, de, Oud-Vossemeer gem. Tholen Zld. NL († 1792)
• Aleijda Petersen, Drempt/Hummelo

• Henri Joseph D'hulster (0), Zarren
• Elnathan Newton (67), Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
• Jan Dirkse van der Linden (Creijste) (60), Kesteren,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Joannes Beeckman (76), Mespelare
• Elisabeth Uten (65), Balen
• Maria Anna Orsini van Rosenberg (0)
• Jean François Joseph le Clercq (0), Inchy (F)
• Joannes Baptista Vermetten, Poederlee, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen (B)
• Elisabeth Ekelboom, Amsterdam
• Pierre Guffens (32)

• 1762 » George IV of the United Kingdom († 1830)
• 1773 » Karl Faber, Prussian historian and academic († 1853)
• 1774 » Robert Southey, English poet and author († 1843)
• 1831 » Helena Blavatsky, Russian theosophist and scholar († 1891)
• 1852 » Michael J. McGivney, American priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus († 1890)
• 1856 » Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist († 1917)
• 1857 » Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter and educator († 1924)
• 1859 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author († 1929)
• 1860 » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler († 1907)
• 1866 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)

• 1778 » Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire (b. 1714)
• 1809 » Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
• 1810 » Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
• 1822 » Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (b. 1769)
• 1827 » William Blake, English poet and painter (b. 1757)
• 1829 » Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (b. 1760)
• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)

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

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

• 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)
• April 25 » "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
• April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
• July 25 » The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
• September 2 » During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
• October 13 » In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
• December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.

The temperature on August 12, 1792 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.