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• Berendina Berentzen Grooteboer, Holten († 1851)
• Antje Sjoerds, Oudega,Friesl,Net
• Aeltien Benthem, Diever, Drente, Nederland
• Alexandra Catharina Portmann, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Düsseldorf, Nordrheinwestfalen, Germany († 1829)
• Andrew Farrar, Flemington, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1832)
• Albert Grote Besselink, Almen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1766)
• Abraham Weignor Heebner
• Bernardus van Grunsven, Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Eland, Zevenbergen, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands († 1832)
• Albertina Mariman, Stekene

• Frederik Adeler Heer van Gundetved (66)
• Aaltjen op 't Have (34), Almen, Gelderland, Nederland
• François LOIRAT (43), Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu, 44860, France
• Hendrik Pietersz van Steinfort (7), Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Grote Besselink (0), Almen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jan Dirksz KLINGEN (6)
• Claassien Klaassen
• Anna Maria Barbara BEHR (59), LIEGE, Liège, Belgique
• Anthony Wilhelm Profeet (37)
• Catharina West, Amsterdam (Westerkerkhof)

• 1665 » George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire († 1716)
• 1722 » Eliza Lucas, Caribbean-American agriculturalist († 1793)
• 1763 » John Molson, English-Canadian brewer, founded the Molson Brewery († 1836)
• 1775 » Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Swiss banker and photographer († 1863)
• 1789 » Catharine Maria Sedgwick, American novelist of "domestic fiction" († 1867)
• 1798 » Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer and mathematician († 1844)
• 1818 » Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist and academic († 1897)
• 1842 » Calixa Lavallée, Canadian-American lieutenant and composer († 1891)
• 1856 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1924)
• 1865 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter († 1925)

• 1694 » Mary II of England (b. 1662)
• 1703 » Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
• 1706 » Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (b. 1647)
• 1708 » Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist and mycologist (b. 1656)
• 1715 » William Carstares, Scottish minister and academic (b. 1649)
• 1734 » Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (b. 1671)
• 1736 » Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)
• 1785 » Peter Ernst Wilde, Polish-Estonian physician and journalist (b. 1732)
• 1795 » Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian physician and lawyer (b. 1747)
• 1859 » Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, English historian and politician, Secretary at War (b. 1800)

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

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

• 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.
• March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
• 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.
• 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 28, 1766 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: mottig donker. Special wheather fenomena: ijs.