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• , Wassenaar, Wassenaar, South Holland, Netherlands († 1821)
• Catharina van Bragt, Oosterhout († 1841)
• Anna Margaretha SCHWADERLAP, Höhr († 1796)
• Aaltje Melisdr. van Dam, Zwijndrecht
• Catharina Cornelisse van Bracht, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1841)
• Antonius Gloudemans, Driel
• Albert Harms Edens, Oostereinde, Winschoten († 1825)
• Adolph Hendriks van Amersfoort, Beekbergen († 1796)
• Antje Gerrits van Leeuwen, Wassenaar († 1821)
• Adolf (Hendriks) van Amersfoort, Beekbergen († 1796)

• Lijsabet Mille (0), Cadzand, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Magdalene Kroh (49)
• Joanna Maria van den Hogen, Niftrik
• Leuntje Pietersdr. van Diemen (72), Wassenaar
• Grietje van Gelder, Ophemert, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Foekes van der Wal (4), Gaastmeer, Friesland, Nederland
• Grietje Aartse van Gelder (72), Ophemert
• David Jacob de Mets Maarsen (71), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands
• Janna Geertruijt Abbink (28), Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jan de Ruijter, de Rijp, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1660 » André Campra, French composer and conductor († 1744)
• 1667 » Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, French composer and educator († 1737)
• 1670 » John Aislabie, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 1742)
• 1713 » Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic († 1786)
• 1777 » Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman († 1849)
• 1795 » Thomas Carlyle, Scottish-English historian, philosopher, and academic († 1881)
• 1798 » Jules Armand Dufaure, French lawyer and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France († 1881)
• 1817 » Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georgian poet and author († 1845)
• 1835 » Samuel Butler, English author and critic († 1902)
• 1844 » Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1914)

• 1679 » Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher and theorist (b. 1588)
• 1680 » Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
• 1696 » Empress Meishō of Japan (b. 1624)
• 1732 » John Gay, English poet and playwright (b. 1685)
• 1798 » Luigi Galvani, Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1737)
• 1828 » Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1839 » John Leamy, Irish–American merchant (b. 1757)
• 1841 » David Daniel Davis, Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777)
• 1845 » Gregor MacGregor, Scottish soldier and explorer (b. 1786)
• 1850 » William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (b. 1783)

• 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 9 » Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
• June 4 » Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
• June 27 » Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
• July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
• November 15 » The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
• November 18 » The rebuilt debtors' prison, at the Castellania in Valletta, receives the first prisoners.

The temperature on December 4, 1760 was about 7.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.