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• Anna Maria SCHOETERS, Mol Belgie († 1785)
• Jacob Cardoso
• Aaltje (Antje) Andries de Haan, Noordwolde († 1826)
• "Jean-Georges" Lucien Marie Lefranc de Pompignan, Paris († 1840)
• Anson Corey, East Greenwich, Kent, RI († 1778)
• Arnolda Jansen, Oeffelt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Gertrud Jungkamp, Vardingholt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1827)
• Arnolda Janssen, Oeffelt, Noord Brabant
• Antonia Gotink, Vorden
• Doodgeboren dochter van Run, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1760)

• Catharina Anna Joerger\Yerger (14), New Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
• Josephus de ROO (49), Bassevelde, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Marie Francoise Girard (38), Verchères, Quebec, Canada
• Johannes Weiser (7), Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Jean Jacques HANNE (40), Dolleren, 68290, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Maria Catharina Gijsberts MELIS (38), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• George Adams (75), Somerset, Maryland, United States
• Maria Leme do Prado, Campanha, Minas Gerais, Brasil
• Marie Agathe HANOTEL (0), Cauchy-à-la-Tour,62260,Pas-de-Calais,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE
• Cornelis Boender (0), Den Helder

• 1708 » Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor († 1765)
• 1724 » Claude Balbastre, French organist and composer († 1799)
• 1730 » Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist († 1799)
• 1731 » František Xaver Dušek, Czech pianist and composer († 1799)
• 1756 » Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria († 1801)
• 1765 » Eli Whitney, American engineer, invented the cotton gin († 1825)
• 1795 » Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer and mathematician († 1874)
• 1807 » Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist († 1893)
• 1813 » August Belmont, Prussian-American financier and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands († 1890)
• 1815 » Adolph Menzel, German painter and illustrator († 1905)

• 1695 » Barthélemy d'Herbelot, French orientalist and academic (b. 1625)
• 1709 » Thomas Corneille, French playwright and philologist (b. 1625)
• 1722 » Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine (b. 1652)
• 1744 » Marie Anne de Mailly, French mistress of Louis XV of France (b. 1717)
• 1745 » Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist and academic (b. 1683)
• 1746 » Charles Radclyffe, English courtier and soldier (b. 1693)
• 1756 » William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English politician and diplomat, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1690)
• 1768 » Jean Denis Attiret, French painter and missionary (b. 1702)
• 1779 » Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
• 1815 » Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (b. 1739)

• 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.
• March 20 » The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
• June 4 » Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
• June 23 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia.
• October 9 » Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
• November 15 » The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.

The temperature on December 8, 1760 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest by south. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.