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• Anna Catharina Heil, Crumstadt († 1818)
• henricus van hemeldonck, Turnhout,, Antwerpen, Belgique († 1840)
• Adriana Borgers, Veghel
• Barbara van Maris, Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1843)
• Anna Catharina Apeldoorn, Amersfoort
• Anna Maria LENDERS, Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agnes Hobus, Heythuysen, Li.NL († 1849)
• Anna Cornelia Brockhoven (Broekhoven), Limbricht, Limburg, Pays-Bas
• Catharina Schauwe SCHRAUWEN, Zundert,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1839)
• Henricus Vervoort, Made en Drimmelen, Nederland

• Dirickx Théodore Didimo JOCKIN (79), Lanaye,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Catherina DONNENWIRTH (71), Uhrwiller,67350,Bas-Rhin,Alsace,FRANCE
• Johannes Schmidt (4), Alertshausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Katharina Becker (0), Wingeshausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Maria Catharina Kern OR Kehr (22), Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau (D)
• Hermanus Janssen (50), Mook
• Margrieta Jans Ketting (34), unbekannt
• Manuel Ramón Sosa y Dias, Arrecifes, Bartolomé Mitre, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Henricus Bogaerts (76), Attenrode Wever
• Ida SEIJBEN (72), Waltwilder, Bilzen (BE)

• 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)
• 1861 » Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland († 1922)
• 1865 » Edith Cavell, English nurse, humanitarian, and saint (Anglicanism) († 1915)
• 1867 » Stanley Argyle, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria († 1940)

• 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)
• April 19 » Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
• April 20 » The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
• April 29 » James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
• May 26 » The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
• July 7 » The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
• August 22 » James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.

The temperature on December 4, 1770 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: hagel omtrent helder.