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• Aaltje Berends Vroom, Sappemeer
• Engel Jacobs HARTOG, Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1812)
• Ariaantje Benjamins Verveer, Utrecht, Nederland († 1831)
• Daniel den Brok, Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bart van Lit, Wadenoijen († 1862)
• Cryspinus Eugenius Declerk, Heule, West Vlaanderen, België
• Barend Hengel van, Dinxperlo
• Boudewijn van de Paerel, Kattendijke († 1819)
• Ariaantje Verveer, Jaarsveld,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1831)
• Apphia Freeman, Gorham, Cumberland, Maine, Verenigde Staten

• Aartje Hermans van Putten, Leimuiden
• Aaltje van Es (58), Overschie
• Cornelis van der Does (85), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Anna Maria Petronella Wanders (0), Wyler, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Gijsbert Jansz Steur (83), Laren
• Jan KAMER (0), Schellinkhout
• Antonia Johannes den CUYPER (66), Someren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Garrit Jan STARINK, Vorden, Gemeente Bronckhorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Euphrosine Gautreaux (53), Chatamochi, Ascension, Louisiana, United States
• Gaspare Melzi (58)

• 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)

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

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

• 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 26 » Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
• July 31 » The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
• October 4 » American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
• October 6 » American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
• December 18 » The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
• December 19 » American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

The temperature on December 6, 1777 was about 5.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.