About the day » Thursday December 20, 1781Calender converter

• Anna Vad, Túrkeve, Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok
• Anna (twin) Chesebrough, Preston, New London County, CT († 1803)
• Cornelia Tiggelman (Tigchelman), Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1846)
• Barent Jansen Jebbink, Warnsveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• ambroise TRICOURT, Wasmes (Belgium) Hainaut
• Anna Jansdr Schouten, Wervershoof, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Wuest OR Wüst, Ellmendingen, Karlsruhe, Baden (D)
• Abraham Elkerbout, Leiden, Nederland
• Christiaan Baumgarte, Rotterdam
• Anna Wilhelmina Schaapfeldt, Bocholt (D)

• Antje Jans PEET (66), Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jacobus Croes (65), Mariekerke
• Hendrika Steenberg (33), Enschede,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Haay Eppes Butter (27), Stavoren
• Antonius Willemse van der Pluijm (51), Dussen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Rooths (74), Susteren
• Jacobus CROES (65), Mariakerke
• Adrianus Willemsz van Winden (49), Pijnacker
• ADRIANA PEERAER (0), MERKSPLAS,ANTWERPEN,BELGIE
• Gerrit van der Keemel (0), Delft

• 1740 » Arthur Lee, American physician and diplomat († 1792)
• 1786 » Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer († 1853)
• 1792 » Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French painter and educator († 1845)
• 1806 » Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) († 1871)
• 1812 » Laura M. Hawley Thurston, American poet and educator († 1842)
• 1838 » Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian, author, and educator († 1926)
• 1841 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1932)
• 1861 » Ferdinand Bonn, German actor († 1933)
• 1861 » Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter († 1926)
• 1865 » Elsie de Wolfe, American actress and interior decorator († 1950)

• 1722 » Kangxi, emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1654)
• 1723 » Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (b. 1652)
• 1740 » Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Portsmouth (b. 1675)
• 1765 » Louis, dauphin of France (b. 1729)
• 1768 » Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (b. 1692)
• 1783 » Antonio Soler, Spanish priest and composer (b. 1729)
• 1812 » Sacagawea, American explorer (b. 1788)
• 1820 » John Bell, American farmer (b. 1750)
• 1856 » Francesco Bentivegna, Italian activist (b. 1820)
• 1862 » Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (b. 1791)

• 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)
• June 3 » Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
• August 5 » The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
• August 24 » American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
• 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.
• October 17 » American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
• October 20 » The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Austria.

The temperature on December 20, 1781 was about 4.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist.