About the day » Wednesday December 6, 1775Calender converter

• Arie van Wijk, Hellouw
• Aletta Fikkert
• Dirk Floren de Koter, Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1777)
• Arij van der Mark, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1778)
• Anna Pieterse van der Schot, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Degens († 1835)
• Cornelis Fredericus WENDEL de JOODE, van, Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1852)
• Anna Maria Goossens, Schinnen († 1778)
• Cornelius Goos, Meer († 1823)
• Anna Christina de Borman, Hasselt († 1776)

• Henricus Hackin [haccour], Epen
• Euphemia Räkers (75), Emsbüren-Berge
• Jan Teeuwis LELY, Westzaandam
• jean philippe CAMUT (32), Dour (Belgium) Hainaut
• Arnoldus Leopoldus VOSSIUS (50), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Gauwke Teunisdr Vermeulen (57), Schoonrewoerd
• Adriana Nachenius (0), Everdingen (Vianen in Utrecht)
• Harmen (Hermen) Wagenvoort (61), Vorden
• Gouwke Teunisdr VERMEULEN (57), Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christiaan Wilbrink (47), Amsterdam

• 1721 » Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French minister and politician († 1794)
• 1752 » Gabriel Duvall, American jurist and politician († 1844)
• 1778 » Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist († 1850)
• 1792 » William II of the Netherlands († 1849)
• 1803 » Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony († 1829)
• 1805 » Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician († 1871)
• 1805 » Richard Hanson, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of South Australia († 1876)
• 1812 » Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman and philanthropist († 1884)
• 1823 » Max Müller, German-English philologist and orientalist († 1900)
• 1827 » William Arnott, Australian biscuit manufacturer and founder of Arnott's Biscuits († 1901)

• 1686 » Eleonora Gonzaga, Queen consort of Ferdinand III (b. 1630)
• 1716 » Benedictus Buns, Dutch priest and composer (b. 1642)
• 1718 » Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1674)
• 1746 » Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1665)
• 1771 » Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist and pathologist (b. 1682)
• 1779 » Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
• 1788 » Jonathan Shipley, English bishop (b. 1714)
• 1855 » William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
• 1867 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)

• 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)
• June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
• July 8 » The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
• July 27 » Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
• August 20 » The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
• November 10 » The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
• December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The temperature on December 6, 1775 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.