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• Anna van Duym, Rotterdam († 1864)
• Anna Maria Angela Bisschoff, Mettingen (Duitsland) († 1853)
• Anna van Duijm, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1864)
• Anna R Zipp, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abigael de Zeeuw, Hoek, Zeeland, Nederland († 1855)
• Anna Maria BISSCHOFF, Mettingen, Noordrijn-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1853)
• Adriana Berg van den, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abigael de Zeeuw, Hoek († 1855)
• Albertus Vink, Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1820)
• Anna Post

• Catharina Nijs (0), Opvelp
• Dellis Swarthoff, Voorstonden
• Grietje Schapenburg, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Jan
• Georges REICHERT (57), Schleithal, 67451, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
• Engelbert Emuns (64), Broeksittard
• Catherine BLANDINEAU (66), Beauvoir-sur-Mer, 85230, France
• Aaltjen Flips Maaskamp (79), Zwartsluis
• Cornelia de Kort (0), Bergen op Zoom
• Emo (0), Beuzeville la Guérard (F)

• 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. Hendrik
3. Johannes
4. Cornelis
5. Joannes
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. Antje
12. Aaltje
13. Elizabeth
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.
• June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
• June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• July 16 » American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
• August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.

The temperature on December 5, 1779 was about 4.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: regen sneeuw .