About the day » Sunday December 24, 1775Calender converter

• Adriana Maris, Fijnaart
• Agatha Cornelisdochter van den Doele, Herkingen, Zuid Holland, Netherlands († 1807)
• Agatha van den Doel, Herkingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1807)
• Aaltje Derks Piebus, Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland († 1855)
• Adriana Jacobse Maris, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1862)
• Goemans, Wassenaar, ZH, Nederland († 1775)
• Aartje Jansen Klijn, Maartensdijk,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1869)
• Aaltje Willems van Loenen, Nijkerk († 1826)
• Adriana Maris, Fijnaart en Heijningen († 1862)
• Aart Arnoldus Touwant, Leiden, Hooglandsche kerk

• "Jacques" Charles du Caron (68), Lammerville, Seine-Maritime, France
• Geertruijt Arendsen Jebbink (68), Vorden gem. Bronckhorst Gld. NL
• Geertrui Arends Jebbink (Jebbekink) (68), Vorden
• Anton Heinrich Schwartz (54), Landkreis Düsseldorf, Derendorf, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Antoine Juglard (72), Blanzaguet-Saint-Cybard, Charente, France
• Hendrika (Hendrikje) Goemans (0), Wassenaar, ZH, Nederland
• Jan TJERKS (1), Hantum, Ternaard, West-Dongeradiel, Dongeradiel, Fryslân, Nederland
• Anna Herbert Thyssen (70), Mierlo,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Van Bommel (0), Wassenaar, ZH, Nederland
• Catherine Desrochers (78), L'Assomption (1724), Quebec, Canada

• 1731 » Julie Bondeli, Swiss salonist and lady of letters († 1778)
• 1754 » George Crabbe, English priest, surgeon, and poet († 1832)
• 1761 » Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer († 1831)
• 1761 » Selim III, Ottoman sultan († 1808)
• 1798 » Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet and playwright († 1855)
• 1809 » Kit Carson, American general († 1868)
• 1810 » Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter and illustrator († 1873)
• 1812 » Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist († 1894)
• 1818 » James Prescott Joule, English physicist and brewer († 1889)
• 1822 » Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic († 1888)

• 1707 » Noël Coypel, French painter and educator (b. 1628)
• 1813 » Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)
• 1844 » Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter (b. 1803)
• 1863 » William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (b. 1811)
• 1865 » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and historian (b. 1793)
• 1867 » José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician. President of Mexico (1846, 1859) and regent of the Second Mexican Empire(b. 1797)
• 1868 » Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
• 1872 » William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1820)
• 1873 » Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)
• 1879 » Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (b. 1815)

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. Trijntje
7. Marie
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)
• February 26 » The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
• April 18 » American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
• May 10 » American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
• August 20 » The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
• September 11 » Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• October 13 » The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).

The temperature on December 24, 1775 was about 7.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: betrokken regen.