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• Albert Veerdig, Wieringen († 1854)
• Elizabeth Coleman, Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1783)
• Annigjen Hendriks Wind, Giethoorn, Overijssel, Nederland († 1844)
• Anna Maria Verhaegen, Putte, 2580, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Clara voor de Wind, Balk, Gaasterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1783)
• Cecilia Anna van Huffel, Temse
• Deborah Coles, Berks, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1782)
• Anna Reiss, Alt-Jablonken
• Annigje Hendriks WIND, Giethoorn († 1844)
• Clampa HUNT, Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1859)

• Bernardina Beenen, Westervoort, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bankratius Hofland (22)
• Evertje Jansen (64), Barneveld
• Gerlof Jacobs Sprietsma (46), Dokkum
• Arij Danielsz. Westgeest (55), Wassenaar aangifte
• (85), Zwijndrecht
• Charlotte Ernestine von Arnim (69), Berlin
• Geertje Jans (31), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Elisabeth Wahle (0), Winterberg, Kreis Brilon
• Geertrui de Haard, Amsterdam

• 1728 » Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden († 1811)
• 1744 » Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States († 1818)
• 1780 » Conradin Kreutzer, German composer († 1849)
• 1780 » José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico († 1834)
• 1787 » Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar († 1823)
• 1808 » Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group († 1892)
• 1814 » Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California († 1893)
• 1819 » George Eliot, English novelist and poet († 1880)
• 1820 » Katherine Plunket, Irish supercentenarian († 1932)
• 1824 » Georg von Oettingen, Estonian-German physician and ophthalmologist († 1916)

• 1694 » John Tillotson, English archbishop (b. 1630)
• 1697 » Libéral Bruant, French architect and academic, designed Les Invalides (b. 1635)
• 1710 » Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1637)
• 1718 » Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680)
• 1758 » Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (db. 1680)
• 1774 » Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire (b. 1725)
• 1794 » John Alsop, American merchant and politician (b. 1724)
• 1813 » Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (b. 1759)
• 1819 » John Stackhouse, English botanist and phycologist (b. 1742)
• 1871 » Oscar James Dunn, African American activist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868-1871 (b. 1826)

• 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)
• January 11 » Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
• March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
• May 13 » War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
• June 24 » American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
• September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

The temperature on November 22, 1779 was about 3.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.