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• Aart Lammerts Beek, Doornspijk († 1841)
• Caroline Françoise de Paris, Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France († 1822)
• Evert Hillebrands
• Elisabeth Driessen, Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1834)
• Cornelius Verbeek, Tilburg
• Aart Lammertsen Beek, Doornspijk († 1841)
• Cornelis Willemse Matthijse Mattijsse
• Abraham deMunck, Breskens, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1821)
• Christiaan Coeveld, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1858)
• Anne Josephe Noiret, Pesche, Namur, Wallonie, Belgique († 1784)

• Daniël van Doeselaar de Jonge (3)
• Egidius Bleijenbergh (0), Kieldrecht
• (1) Petrus Joannes Vande Populiere (42), Wortegem (O-VL) België
• Guillielmus Vierstraete (23), Izegem,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Geritje Van Baal (80), Kessel, Duitsland
• Barbara Hackers (75), Heel en Panheel
• Hendrik Wentink (58), Steenderen
• Ferdinand Zepf (65), Kolut
• François GEORGE, Modave,4577,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Barbara VAN COPPENOLLE (76), Zulzeke,9690,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE

• 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)
• 1820 » William H. Osborn, American businessman († 1894)

• 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)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)

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

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

• 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 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
• May 10 » American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
• October 13 » The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).
• October 18 » African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
• November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
• December 3 » USSAlfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.

The temperature on December 21, 1775 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: zeer betrokken.