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• Bonaventure Adrien Corneille de Lange († 1845)
• Aldegonda Janssen, Blerick († 1857)
• Adriana Grootenboer, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1861)
• Adriana GROTENBOER, Sliedrecht
• Arend Jan Relker, Borculo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anne Vanmullem, Snellegem († 1835)
• Anna Gertrudis Duijsings, Vilt (Berg en Terblijt), Limburg, Nederland († 1842)
• Baukjen Pieters Stellinga, Terband, Friesland, Nederland
• Cathalijntje Raven, Curacao († 1863)
• Anna Cornelia Reijnen, Stabroeck, prov. Antwerpen († 1818)

• Clara Hendrina Vandendijck, Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Guilhelmus Norbertus Ruts (73), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Theodore Rodrigue Karel Lodewijk Joseph Graaf van Andelot (61), Parijs
• Jan Willemsz Wolzak (49), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Willemszoon Wolzak (Wolsack) (49), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands
• Johannes Schures (60), Ottersum, Nederland
• Gerardus Hesen, Helden
• Françoise BOUCHY (0), Bacourt (57)
• Jan Willems WOLZAK (49), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Dr. Jonathan Kearsley Sr (64), Shippensburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States

• 1751 » Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Austrian priest, missionary, and saint († 1820)
• 1751 » Lord George Gordon, English lieutenant and politician († 1793)
• 1769 » Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer and poet († 1860)
• 1780 » Mary Somerville, Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author († 1872)
• 1782 » Philaret Drozdov, Russian metropolitan and saint († 1867)
• 1785 » Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium († 1871)
• 1791 » Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine († 1871)
• 1803 » Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author († 1882)
• 1819 » E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author and educator († 1899)
• 1820 » Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright († 1890)

• 1646 » Henri de Bourbon, prince of Condé (b. 1588)
• 1731 » Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (b. 1672)
• 1771 » Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher and activist (b. 1715)
• 1780 » John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (b. 1712)
• 1784 » Seth Warner, American colonel (b. 1743)
• 1786 » Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)
• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)

• 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 15 » Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
• March 8 » Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity, are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.
• March 16 » Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782.
• March 27 » Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• August 19 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
• September 13 » American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

The temperature on December 26, 1782 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.