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• Ari Pietersz Van De MERWE, Dubbeldam
• Arij Weeda († 1846)
• Anna Maria Opgenorth, Limbricht, Limburg, Nederland († 1810)
• Baukje Ekes Zijlstra, Tzummarum, Barradeel, Fr, Nederland
• Arie van de Merwe, Dubbeldam
• arie pietersz van de MERWE, dubbeldam
• Abraham Heisey Gochenour Sr 3rd GGF, Page, Buchanan County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1863)
• Aafje Verdoes, Schiedam († 1866)
• Caroline Marie Roose de Baisy, Anvers († 1852)
• Anton Bier (90), Ketzelsdorf 151, Zwittau († 1841)

• Daniël van de Weege (57), Terneuzen
• Antonio I de Armenta (84), Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Bernardus Bongers (41), Doetinchem
• Casper Artz, Beugen
• Adrianus van der Doorn (39), Den Haag
• Daniel vandeWege (56), Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Caspar Ardts (58), Beugen
• Beert Gerrits (van de Bunte) (45), Nunspeet
• Daniel Jr van de Weege (57), Neuzen
• Daniel Danielsz van de Wege (57), Terneuzen

• 1751 » George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist († 1813)
• 1776 » Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este († 1848)
• 1783 » María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright († 1873)
• 1787 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf († 1851)
• 1804 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic († 1851)
• 1805 » Joseph Škoda, Czech physician, dermatologist, and academic († 1881)
• 1805 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist, founded The Liberator († 1879)
• 1811 » Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer, American poet, biographer, and editor († 1894)
• 1815 » Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist († 1852)
• 1821 » Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic († 1877)

• 1665 » Tarquinio Merula, Italian organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1594)
• 1736 » António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese soldier and politician (b. 1663)
• 1791 » Jacob Frank, Polish religious leader (b. 1726)
• 1831 » Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1850 » François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
• 1850 » Józef Bem, Polish general and physicist (b. 1794)
• 1865 » Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
• 1867 » Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 » Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)

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

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

• 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.
• February 14 » James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
• March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
• June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
• July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
• September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

The temperature on December 10, 1779 was about 3.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: betrokken mist.