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• Antje Sytses van Seyen, Hemrik, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1865)
• Aaltjen Oonk, Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1856)
• Antje Sytzes van Seijen, Hemrik († 1865)
• Catharina Elisabeth Mevis, Spaubeek
• Adriana VLIEGENTHART, Dordrecht
• Ambrose Parks
• Anne Marie Helene MORIN, Plaintel,Côtes-d'Armor,Bretagne,FRANCE († 1822)
• Antje Arkenroo, Enkhuizen († 1841)
• Anne BOUCHY, Pont À Chaussy (57)
• Adélaïde PAMART, Douchy-les-Mines,59282,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE († 1860)

• Elisabeth Wagener (20), Laaspherhütte,Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Anna Petronella Vermeulen (31), ‘s-Hertogenbosch,Gemeente 'S-Hertogenbosch,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Abraham Jansz Nottelman (62), St Maarten, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Nottelman (62), Sint Maarten
• Claas Hindriks Sagehoorn (soeghoren0 (63)
• Dominique Lévesque (71), Notre-Dame-de-Liesse, Rivière-Ouelle, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada
• Catharina Schijns (81), Gulpen, Netherlands
• Claude_Anastase Capelle, Saint-Omer, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana van der Schans (83), 's-Grevelduin-Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Hendrikje Meeuwis GERRITS, Apeldoorn,, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1760 » Pope Leo XII († 1829)
• 1764 » Charles Percier, French architect and interior designer († 1838)
• 1771 » Henry Maudslay, English engineer († 1831)
• 1773 » Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer († 1858)
• 1778 » James Kirke Paulding, American poet, playwright, and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy († 1860)
• 1788 » Thomas Tredgold, English engineer and author († 1829)
• 1800 » Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar († 1865)
• 1800 » William S. Harney, American general († 1889)
• 1827 » Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician († 1906)
• 1834 » Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer († 1906)

• 1711 » Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (b. 1644)
• 1752 » William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667)
• 1773 » George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1709)
• 1793 » Louis de Noailles, French general (b. 1713)
• 1797 » Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
• 1806 » Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and illustrator (b. 1732)
• 1818 » Warren Hastings, English lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 » Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
• 1850 » Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (b. 1802)
• 1861 » Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)

• 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 25 » The London Corresponding Society is founded.
• February 20 » The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
• April 2 » The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
• May 17 » The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.
• September 11 » The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
• October 29 » Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

The temperature on August 22, 1792 was about 16.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: zeer betrokken.