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• Johanna van Dieten (Dieden), Dieden († 1784)
• Adriaan Brouwers, Gilze (Gilze en Rijen) (Noord-Brabant) († 1866)
• Anna Petronella Baetens, Stekene, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1821)
• Dirk Willemse Turfboer, Scheveningen, Nederland († 1858)
• Anna Barbara Dautsenberg († 1833)
• Archibald Mcdougall, Eckford, Roxburgh, Scotland († 1840)
• Agatha Joanna Loos, Amsterdam
• Adriana Goossenaerts, Calmpthout, Antwerpen, België
• Adriaan Pieterszn Oomens, Lage Zwaluwe († 1823)
• doodgeboren Marseille, Haarlem († 1778)

• doodgeboren Marseille (0), Haarlem
• Geertje Jacobs Jonker (70)
• Jozina Rees (29), Delfshaven
• Margarete Streithof (63), Wingeshausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Geertje Jacobs Pauw (72), Warder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabetha VROOMEN (77), Schinnen (NL/LI)
• Benoite ARMANET (20), Eclose,38300,Isère,Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,FRANCE
• Maria Elisabeth Cleijnjans, Merkelbeek
• Lammegien JANNES (1), Oude Smilde, Midden-Drenthe, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cornelis van GERWEN (40), Oerle

• 1782 » Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States († 1862)
• 1784 » George Shepherd, English illustrator and painter († 1862)
• 1803 » Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet and diplomat († 1873)
• 1820 » Afanasy Fet, Russian poet and author († 1892)
• 1822 » Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American philosopher and academic, co-founded Radcliffe College († 1907)
• 1829 » Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Premier of Quebec († 1908)
• 1830 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and author († 1894)
• 1839 » George Armstrong Custer, American general († 1876)
• 1841 » Marcus Daly, Irish-American businessman († 1900)
• 1849 » Eduard Seler, German anthropologist, ethnohistorian, linguist, and academic († 1922)

• 1663 » Severo Bonini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1582)
• 1749 » Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian commander and explorer (b. 1685)
• 1758 » Johann Friedrich Fasch, German violinist and composer (b. 1688)
• 1770 » James Stirling, Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692)
• 1784 » Phillis Wheatley, Senegal-born slave, later American poet (b. 1753)
• 1791 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician (b. 1756)
• 1819 » Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (b. 1750)
• 1870 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)

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

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

• 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)
• February 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• February 6 » American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
• February 6 » New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• July 3 » American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
• August 21 » American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
• September 7 » American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.

The temperature on December 5, 1778 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: betrokken regen.