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• Arie Arieszn VAN Wijngaarden (Wingerden), Sliedrecht († 1827)
• Bathsheba Cheesman, Turnerville, Glouchester Twn., Gloucester Co., NJ († 1870)
• Annigje Jansd Heijnen, Dinxterveen, ov.nld († 1840)
• Arij van WIJNGAARDEN, Sliedrecht
• Beitske Dirks
• Adriaan Haartsen, Breskens
• Adriaan Aartsen, Breskens († 1827)
• Anthonie Sonke, Kruiningen
• Aalbert Brouwer, Westervoort
• Arie Arienszn van Wijngaarden, Sliedrecht, Nederland († 1827)

• Elizabeth Seymour of Somerset (59)
• Christian Imhof (50), Sassenhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Jan Gerritsen (14)
• François Destroismaisons dit Picard (69), St-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, QC
• Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland SEYMOUR (60)
• Jan Peters de Olde (54), Beulake, Overijssel, Nederland
• Jan Cornelisz Droogenhoeck (80)
• Elizabeth SEYMOUR (60), Northumberland House, The Strand, London, Middlesex
• Hermijntje de Jongh (56), Kralingen, Rotterdam, Nederland
• Gerrit Willems van Schaik, Jaarsveld

• 1782 » Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States († 1862)
• 1784 » George Shepherd, English illustrator and painter († 1862)
• 1803 » Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet and diplomat († 1873)
• 1820 » Afanasy Fet, Russian poet and author († 1892)
• 1822 » Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American philosopher and academic, co-founded Radcliffe College († 1907)
• 1829 » Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Premier of Quebec († 1908)
• 1830 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and author († 1894)
• 1839 » George Armstrong Custer, American general († 1876)
• 1841 » Marcus Daly, Irish-American businessman († 1900)
• 1849 » Eduard Seler, German anthropologist, ethnohistorian, linguist, and academic († 1922)

• 1663 » Severo Bonini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1582)
• 1749 » Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian commander and explorer (b. 1685)
• 1758 » Johann Friedrich Fasch, German violinist and composer (b. 1688)
• 1770 » James Stirling, Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692)
• 1784 » Phillis Wheatley, Senegal-born slave, later American poet (b. 1753)
• 1791 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician (b. 1756)
• 1819 » Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (b. 1750)
• 1870 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)

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. John
15. Klaas
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
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 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
• June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
• September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
• September 15 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
• November 20 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.

The temperature on December 5, 1776 was about 6.0 °C. Weather type: betrokken mist.