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• Charlotta (Lotje) van Snelderweerd Snellerwaard († 1851)
• Berendina Onderstal, Otterlo († 1848)
• Franciscus BONGERS, Beesel, Limburg, Netherlands († 1827)
• Anna Theresia THIELENS, Scherpenheuvel
• Charles LEJEUNE, Ile, Bandundu, Congo
• Amand Fidèle Joseph DELESTRAIN, Guignies, Belgique († 1767)
• Anna van Riel, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berendijna Onderstal, Otterlo, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1848)
• Anna Maria Blotkamp, Schapen, D († 1830)
• Bartolomeus van Duynhove, Stiphout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1850)

• Gerit Joosten van Wetten, Oerle
• Benjamin Kimball (64), Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
• Geertrui Immertsdr in 't Veld (41), Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Christiaen POPPELIERS (53), Waspik, 4375, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christiaen Poppelier (53), Waspik, Gemeente Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Hidde Hiddes (1)
• Jan Christen van 't Kristenhuis (59)
• Anna Carolina Vandekerkhove, Welden,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Clara Maria GOETBLOET (0), Sint-Gummarus Lier
• Cornelia Sprundel van (0), Oud en nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1694 » Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and academic († 1768)
• 1696 » James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Georgia († 1785)
• 1723 » Carl Friedrich Abel, German viol player and composer († 1787)
• 1765 » Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic († 1825)
• 1799 » Nicholas Callan, Irish priest and physicist († 1864)
• 1805 » John Obadiah Westwood, English entomologist and archaeologist († 1893)
• 1807 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic († 1873)
• 1819 » Franz Abt, German composer and conductor († 1870)
• 1819 » Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic († 1892)
• 1839 » John Nevil Maskelyne, English magician († 1917)

• 1660 » André Tacquet, Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1612)
• 1666 » Guercino, Italian painter (b. 1591)
• 1681 » Richard Alleine, English minister and author (b. 1611)
• 1767 » John Newbery, English publisher (b. 1713)
• 1788 » Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
• 1806 » William Vernon, English-American merchant (b. 1719)
• 1828 » William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (b. 1766)
• 1853 » Manuel María Lombardini, Mexican general and politician. President (1853) (b. 1802)
• 1867 » Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788)
• 1870 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836)

• 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)
• March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
• May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
• July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
• November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
• December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
• December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.

The temperature on December 22, 1766 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: ijs.