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• Bernardus de Waal, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Charles Joseph HETRU, Saint-Folquin(62)... Hauts de France († 1853)
• Antonius Jansz Kamp, Bloemendaal
• Cornelia Cornelisdr Dobbe, Ter Aar († 1833)
• Cornelia van Broekhoven, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barend Budde, oostzaandam († 1795)
• Barbara Theresia Neels, Ruddervoorde,8020,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1807)
• Barend Barendsz Budde, Oostzaadam, Netherland († 1795)
• Cornelia Pikkave, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Zoutewelle, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland

• Hendrik Teunissen (12)
• Franciscus Van Cleemput (61), Waasmunster,9100,Oost-Vlaanderen,BE
• Florentina Vermeulen (0), Blankenberge
• Jan Leenaertsz Hoefnagel (72), Harderwijk
• Berendje Claasen Knol
• Geertrui Jans Faas
• Jan Hendrik Schaap, .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname
• Jacobus Christiaansz Keijser (55)
• Geertje Jans van Putten (40), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Gerrit van Mil, Ophemert

• 1714 » John Bradstreet, Canadian-English general († 1774)
• 1728 » Hermann Raupach, German harpsichord player and composer († 1778)
• 1778 » Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Denmark († 1860)
• 1795 » Jack Russell, English priest, hunter, and dog breeder († 1883)
• 1795 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian, author, and academic († 1886)
• 1803 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic († 1894)
• 1804 » Benjamin Disraeli, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1881)
• 1805 » Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist and academic († 1869)
• 1811 » Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop († 1882)
• 1815 » Thomas Couture, French painter and educator († 1879)

• 1608 » William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1541)
• 1610 » Catherine Vasa, Swedish princess (b. 1539)
• 1701 » Sir Hugh Paterson, Baronet of Bannockburn (b. 1659)
• 1807 » John Newton, English soldier and minister (b. 1725)
• 1824 » James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755)
• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)

• 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 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
• January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
• February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
• September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The temperature on December 21, 1764 was about -1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: omtrent helder.