About the day » Monday December 6, 1779Calender converter

• Adrianus Van den Neste, Melle
• Abraham Leendertszn. Zoeter, Bruinisse († 1825)
• Anne Marie Jacqueline de Galard de Béarn, Paris († 1818)
• Antonius Dierckx, Morkhoven, Herentals, België († 1841)
• Adriaan Willem Emile van Panhuys, Maastricht, Limb († 1870)
• Abraham Leenderse Zoeter (Soeter), Bruinisse, Zeeland, Nederland († 1825)
• Arnoldus Nicolaes Bemelman, Amsterdam
• Aart Driessen Hase, Nunspeet
• Aaltjen Cornelis van Dijk, Mastenbroek, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alexandrina Veelen, Driel, Netherlands († 1854)

• Agnes Spies (58), Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Adriana Maria Vermeer (60), Tilburg
• Grietje Meesters (77), Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Hendrik Swarts, Utrecht
• Grietien Pietersdochter MIESTER (77)
• Catharina Schanz (45), Genkingen, Wuerttenberg, Germany
• Grietien Pieters Miester (77), Huijsen(NH)
• George Sinclair, WS (30)
• Harmanus Blankesteijn, Huijsen
• Hendrik Hartgers (52), Harderwijk

• 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)
• 1833 » John S. Mosby, American colonel († 1916)

• 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. 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.
• February 14 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
• February 14 » James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
• 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).
• 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.
• September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.

The temperature on December 6, 1779 was about 4.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: regen half bewolkt. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht.