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• Aart Dreessen
• Benedictus Michielsens, Oorderen († 1850)
• Grietje Bennes Hazelhoff, Scheemda, Groningen, Netherlands († 1891)
• Arij van Striemen, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Driessen Frens, Elspeet († 1828)
• Elisabeth Gruijthuijsen, Eindhoven
• Dijna de VOS, Dordrecht
• Armand-Natal de Boisgelin, Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, France († 1853)
• Godefridus van MIERLO, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• *Geertruida van Doorne, Deurne

• Arie Pieters Scharp
• Catharina Poelmans (48), Neeritter, 6015, Nederland
• Guillaume Adins (Adyns) (65), Kortrijk
• GUILELMUS ADINS (65), Courtrai, 8500, Flandre occidentale, Belgique
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Plogmann (25), Altenhagen, Fürstbistum Osnabrück
• jacques gillis, waasmont
• Elizabeth Sarah Tisdale (77), Middleboro, Plymouth Co., MA
• Cornelis Albertsz Lap (63), Den Hoorn (Texel), Nederland
• Gerrigje Stellaard (78), leerbroek (zuid holland)
• Dries Jansen (Andries) van Asselt (91)

• 1742 » Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, German field marshal († 1819)
• 1770 » Ludwig van Beethoven, composer († 1827)
• 1775 » François-Adrien Boieldieu, French pianist and composer († 1834)
• 1775 » Jane Austen, English novelist († 1817)
• 1776 » Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher († 1810)
• 1778 » John Ordronaux, French-American soldier († 1841)
• 1787 » Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright († 1855)
• 1790 » Leopold I of Belgium († 1865)
• 1804 » Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician and academic († 1889)
• 1812 » Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales († 1867)

• 1669 » Nathaniel Fiennes, English soldier and politician (b. 1608)
• 1687 » William Petty, English economist and philosopher (b. 1623)
• 1751 » Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1700)
• 1774 » François Quesnay, French economist, physician, and philosopher (b. 1694)
• 1783 » Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer and educator (b. 1699)
• 1783 » Sir William James, 1st Baronet, Welsh-English commander and politician (b. 1720)
• 1805 » Saverio Cassar, Gozitan priest and rebel leader (b. 1746)
• 1809 » Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755)
• 1859 » Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist and author (b. 1786)
• 1892 » Henry Yesler, American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1810)

• 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)
• May 29 » American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
• September 21 » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
• September 23 » American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
• October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
• October 7 » American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
• December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York

The temperature on December 16, 1780 was about 7.0 °C. Weather type: omtrent helder.