About the day » Monday December 1, 1721Calender converter

• Andreas DRIESEN, Vosselaar, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• André PARIS, ( Carneville, 50330, Manche, Basse-Normandie, FRANCE († 1800)
• Adrianus VAN DOMMELEN, Beesd († 1789)
• Catherine RUTSAERT, Lotenhulle, 44035, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1792)
• Egidius Beeckman, Wieze
• Anna de Vos, Zevenbergen
• Anna Cornelia De Winter, Rumst, 2840, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Antje Jacobdr Houtkoper, Oudkarspel, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1723)
• antoine éloy BERLEMONT, Dour (Belgium) Hainaut († 1791)
• Antje Houtkoper, Oudkarspel († 1723)

• Elisabetha Hendricx (31)
• Heinrick Huibrechtsz Poot (62), Maasland
• Hendrik Huibertsz Poot (62), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Hendrick Huijbertsz Poot (62), Maasland
• Claas Entesz. Schuijt
• Heijnrich Huibrechtsz Poot (62), Maasland
• Hendrik Huijbertszn Poot (65), Maasland
• Elisabetha HENDRICKX (27), Leuven (Sint Michiel)
• Christianus Sebastianus Mertens Luijcx (68), Steenbergen, Staats-Brabant, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden
• Christianus S M Luijckx (68), Steenbergen,Noord-Brabant,Nederland

• 1690 » Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom († 1764)
• 1709 » Franz Xaver Richter, Czech composer, violinist, and conductor († 1789)
• 1716 » Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor († 1791)
• 1743 » Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic († 1817)
• 1761 » Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum († 1850)
• 1792 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer († 1856)
• 1800 » Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungarian poet († 1855)
• 1805 » 9th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader († 1815)
• 1844 » Alexandra of Denmark († 1925)
• 1846 » Ledi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher († 1923)

• 1581 » Alexander Briant, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1556)
• 1581 » Edmund Campion, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (b. 1540)
• 1633 » Isabella Clara Eugenia, infanta of Spain (b. 1566)
• 1640 » Miguel de Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1590)
• 1660 » Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist and historian (b. 1592)
• 1729 » Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)
• 1750 » Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
• 1755 » Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (b. 1696)
• 1767 » Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician (b. 1710)
• 1825 » Alexander I, emperor and autocrat of Russia (b. 1777)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• January 6 » The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings, revealing details of fraud among company directors and corrupt politicians.
• March 24 » Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
• April 4 » Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British prime minister.
• April 26 » A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
• August 18 » The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.
• October 22 » Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War.

The temperature on December 1, 1721 was about 3.0 °C.