About the day » Saturday December 15, 1792Calender converter

• Adèlaïde Anne Joseph Buscher, Benay, 02440, France
• Aartje Hendriksen, Scherpenzeel († 1800)
• Aagje Jacobs Kraak, Mijnsheerenland († 1872)
• Anna Elisabeth Roijen (Royen), Hoensbroek, LI, Netherlands († 1853)
• Aaltje (Antje) Klaas Langereis, Berkhout († 1858)
• (Anna) (Maria) Elisabeth Roijen, Hoensbroek, Nederland († 1853)
• Algernon Smithson († 1865)
• Anna de Ruijter, Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franiscus Van Looy, Tongerlo (2260, Antwerpen)
• Aagje Jacobsdr., Mijnsheerenland († 1872)

• Hugo Pigot (70)
• Gerrit Beentjes (Been, Beenen, Bening) (57), Sloten N.H
• Jakob Blokesch (3), Borutin
• Anna Borggraeff (74), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Jacob Fökkink (68), Aalten, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Joanna Raaijmakers (70), Gemeente Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Isak Bussemaker (52), Deventer
• Henrietta Maria Philips
• Gertrud Althaus (0), Elsoff, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Catharina Jansen (64)

• 1789 » Carlos Soublette, Venezuelan general and politician, 11th President of Venezuela († 1870)
• 1832 » Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower († 1923)
• 1837 » E. W. Bullinger, English minister, scholar, and theologian († 1913)
• 1852 » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1908)
• 1859 » L. L. Zamenhof, Polish linguist and ophthalmologist, created Esperanto († 1917)
• 1860 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager († 1953)
• 1860 » Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and educator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1904)
• 1861 » Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company († 1938)
• 1861 » Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd President of Finland († 1944)
• 1863 » Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and engineer († 1935)

• 1688 » Gaspar Fagel, Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1634)
• 1688 » Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French nobleman (b. 1636)
• 1715 » George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
• 1753 » Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect and politician, designed Chiswick House (b. 1694)
• 1792 » Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish pianist, violinist, and composer (b. 1756)
• 1812 » Shneur Zalman, Russian rabbi, author and founder of Chabad (b. 1745)
• 1819 » Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
• 1855 » Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)
• 1878 » Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)

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)
• March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
• April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
• June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• August 16 » Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
• September 21 » French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
• October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.

The temperature on December 15, 1792 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht.