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• Akke Phillipus Bouwer, Op de Heide
• Andries Klaasz Teeuw, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1832)
• Antonia van DALEN, Dalem, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1840)
• Antonie Scheffer, Renkum († 1867)
• Antje Feikes Wiarda, Marrum († 1853)
• Antje Feikes Wierda, Marrum († 1853)
• Andries Klaasz Teeuw († 1832)
• Catharina Vermeeren, Breda, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1782)
• Andries Teeuw, Sliedrecht
• Andries Klaaszn Teeuw, Sliedrecht († 1832)

• Geertruij Hendriksdr. van der Linden (39), Goudswaard
• Anna Hermes (43), Papenburg, Niedersachsen, Duitsland
• Driesjen Harmenz (71), Doornspijk, Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alle Gjalts (59), Garijp, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelis Keesse Guldemond, Ter Aar
• Geertruij Hendriksdr van der LINDEN (39), Goudswaard, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Georg Christiaan Krafft (60), Coevorden, Nederland
• Alle (Aalle) Gjolts (59), Garijp, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Geertruij Hendriks van der LINDEN (39), Goudswaard
• Geertrui Hendriksdr Van Der Linden (39), Goudswaard

• 1709 » Franz Xaver Richter, Czech composer, violinist, and conductor († 1789)
• 1716 » Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor († 1791)
• 1743 » Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic († 1817)
• 1761 » Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum († 1850)
• 1792 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer († 1856)
• 1800 » Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungarian poet († 1855)
• 1805 » 9th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader († 1815)
• 1844 » Alexandra of Denmark († 1925)
• 1846 » Ledi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher († 1923)
• 1847 » Julia A. Moore, American poet († 1920)

• 1660 » Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist and historian (b. 1592)
• 1729 » Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)
• 1750 » Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
• 1755 » Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (b. 1696)
• 1767 » Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician (b. 1710)
• 1825 » Alexander I, emperor and autocrat of Russia (b. 1777)
• 1865 » Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (b. 1796)
• 1866 » George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (b. 1790)
• 1867 » Charles Gray Round, English lawyer and politician (b. 1797)
• 1884 » William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)

• 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 6 » In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
• February 18 » Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
• March 15 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House: Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory.
• June 3 » Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
• September 5 » Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
• September 8 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.

The temperature on December 1, 1781 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken mist.