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• Adrianus van de Loop, Veghel
• Aafje Pieters Groot, Obdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1851)
• Aart, Hierden
• Aaltje Hendriks Panhuis, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1859)
• Ernestine Maria van Czettritz-Neuhaus, Bolescin\Swidnica (Pilzen\Schweidnitz), Neder-Silezië, Polen († 1816)
• Antoine Joseph DOUMONT, Ham-Sur-Sambre, 5190, Namur, Belgique
• Adriana van Bommel, Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Aaltie Hendriks Panhuis, Leeuwarden († 1859)
• Agatha Herdingh, Leiden († 1801)
• Catharina Geldhof, Zarren West-Vlaanderen, België

• Henricus Joannis van de Ven (62)
• Hendrijntje Pieterse Scheurkogel (75), Schiedam
• Hermen Egberts Veenbergen (61), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Helena Wubbels (39), Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Francoise Denisot (86), Savigny-sur-Grosne, 71460, Francia
• Cornelske Bastiaans Broeils, Ulrum
• Jean Baptiste Giroux (56), Quebec, Canada
• Jan Matthes (45), Amsterdam
• Francoise Agnes Ammoric (71), Marseille
• Francesca Agnes Aumaric (71), Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

• 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. Hendrik
4. Johannes
5. Cornelis
6. Joannes
7. Jacob
8. Willem
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Jean
13. Dirk
14. Klaas
15. John
16. Adrianus

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

• 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 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
• June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
• June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
• July 9 » George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
• September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
• December 26 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.

The temperature on December 21, 1776 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.