About the day » Saturday December 20, 1721Calender converter

• Jean Baptiste Jean, ( Peyres Juans ) Uvernet-Fours († 1746)
• Esteban de Pombo Rodríguez y López Gómez, San Pedro de Sorrizo, Galicia, España († 1774)
• Cornelia Fransse van Riel, Klundert († 1757)
• Carolus Meert, St.-Ulriks Kapelle
• Bernardus Hattink, R.K. Statie Duistervoorde (Voorst) Gld. NL
• Françios Jozephe Poulet († 1781)
• Geerd Henric Schrakamp, Mettingen, Pruisen, Duitsland († 1724)
• Catarina Maria Furtado, Cedros,Faial,Portugal († 1805)
• Catharina Buijten van der, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Joanna Raaijmakers, Drunen († 1792)

• Jacob Frederiks FIERET (43), Scheveningen
• Andries Behiels (80), Sint Niklaas
• Jane Rice (34), `
• Jacobus Frederikse FIERET (43), Scheveningen, Provincie Zuid-Holland, PAY,-, PAY
• Anthonius Roecken (1), Essen
• Aeltie Leenderts van Catz, Cabauw
• Jacobus Fieret (43), Scheveningen,,Nederland
• Aaltje Leenderts Catz, Cabauw
• Francisca Maes (79), Sint Niklaas
• Aeltge Leenders Catz, Cabauw

• 1626 » Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German scholar and politician († 1692)
• 1629 » Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter († 1684)
• 1641 » Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician († 1724)
• 1740 » Arthur Lee, American physician and diplomat († 1792)
• 1786 » Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer († 1853)
• 1792 » Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French painter and educator († 1845)
• 1806 » Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) († 1871)
• 1812 » Laura M. Hawley Thurston, American poet and educator († 1842)
• 1838 » Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian, author, and educator († 1926)
• 1841 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1932)

• 1590 » Ambroise Paré, French physician and surgeon (b. 1510)
• 1658 » Jean Jannon, French designer and typefounder (b. 1580)
• 1722 » Kangxi, emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1654)
• 1723 » Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (b. 1652)
• 1740 » Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Portsmouth (b. 1675)
• 1765 » Louis, dauphin of France (b. 1729)
• 1768 » Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (b. 1692)
• 1783 » Antonio Soler, Spanish priest and composer (b. 1729)
• 1812 » Sacagawea, American explorer (b. 1788)
• 1820 » John Bell, American farmer (b. 1750)

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

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

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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 20, 1721 was about 1.0 °C.