About the day » Thursday August 22, 1793Calender converter

• Benjamin Ross, Bradford,Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1854)
• Anna Maria Fooré, Vianen († 1819)
• Aaltjen Hulshoff, Doornspijk
• Arnoldus Hendriks Mossink, Epe, GD, Nederland († 1879)
• Anna Catharina Van Den Bril, Merchtem (Vlaams-Brabant, België)
• Abeltje Jacobs Drost, Nieuw Scheemda († 1858)
• Alibert van Bostelen, Warmond († 1847)
• Alibert van Borstelen, Roermond
• Adriaan Cornelisz Klinkert, Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Angela Mariae Hofstedde, Ambt Delden-Wegdam

• Jacoba Graauwhart
• Anna Van Espen (72), Werchter (B)
• Louis de Noailles (80)
• Bernard Mulders (26), Roermond
• Johannes Bongaerts (38), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jean Pierre ARNOLD (62), Br√©chaumont (68210, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Leonhard Johann Melchior Schwaderer (84), Weiler zum Stein
• Franciscus GHYSEBRECHTS (2), Heers, Province of Limburg, Belgium
• Allegonda van Sonsbeek, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Lodewijk Hertog van Noailles (80), St. Germain-en-Laye, Ile-de-France

• 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)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Trijntje
7. Catharina
8. Grietje
9. Neeltje
10. Aaltje
11. Joanna
12. Adriana
13. Marie
14. Jannetje
15. Antje
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 9 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
• May 23 » Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
• June 10 » The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
• July 22 » Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
• August 27 » French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
• December 25 » General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.

The temperature on August 22, 1793 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder winderig.