About the day » Thursday December 21, 1780Calender converter

• Antje Rosier, Amersfoort
• Catherine LAIDIN, Soullans, 85300, France († 1860)
• Aartje van der Pligt, Heinenoord († 1859)
• ? Vinke, Doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Christina VANDEWEYER, Tessenderlo
• Christina Voorderman, Vorden
• Adriana Dingemans, Loon op Zand († 1841)
• Claudius VAN BEETHOVEN, Leefdaal,3061,Vlaams-Brabant,Vlaanderen,BELGIË († 1805)
• Adriana DINGEMANS, Loon op Zand,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1841)
• Aartje Jansd Van Der PLIGT, Heinenoord († 1859)

• Gerardus Sevenhuijsen (0), Zierikzee gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL
• Anna Maria Barber (65), Düsseldorf, Derendorf, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Gijsbert Floors van Emst (29), Epe
• Aaltje Fransdr ?, Mijnsheerenland
• christine delabye (69), Deux-Acren,, Hainaut, Belgique
• James Harris (68), Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
• Adrianus van Weert (0), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• aaltje RIPKEMA (29), mijnsheerenland
• Johannes Coenen (38), Gohr, Dormagen, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Helena (Lena) van Putten (70), Zoetermeer

• 1778 » Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Denmark († 1860)
• 1795 » Jack Russell, English priest, hunter, and dog breeder († 1883)
• 1795 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian, author, and academic († 1886)
• 1803 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic († 1894)
• 1804 » Benjamin Disraeli, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1881)
• 1805 » Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist and academic († 1869)
• 1811 » Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop († 1882)
• 1815 » Thomas Couture, French painter and educator († 1879)
• 1820 » William H. Osborn, American businessman († 1894)
• 1830 » Bartolomé Masó, Cuban soldier and politician († 1907)

• 1701 » Sir Hugh Paterson, Baronet of Bannockburn (b. 1659)
• 1807 » John Newton, English soldier and minister (b. 1725)
• 1824 » James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755)
• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)

• 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)
• March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
• March 17 » American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
• August 16 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden: The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
• September 21 » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
• October 7 » American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
• October 16 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.

The temperature on December 21, 1780 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw.