About the day » Tuesday December 16, 1783Calender converter

• Anna Cordy, Aartrijke, België
• Anna Leendertse Nederpeldt, Poeldijk
• Anna Tromp, Druten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Eliesa van Essen
• Anne Boeles Reitsma, Opeinde, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1853)
• Anna (Johanna) Tromp, Afferden (Druten) († 1855)
• Anna Trompen, Druten, Gelderland, Nederland
• anna maria janssen, helden-panningen (vosberg) († 1786)
• Berend Hinrich Kathmann, Lerchenhausen, Twistringen, Germany († 1856)
• Anna Tromp (Trompen), Druten {GE}

• Jacob Jansz de Best (67), 's-Gravenzande, ZH, Nederland
• Hiltje Ruurds (56), Dantumadeel
• Anna Josepha Van de Walle (0), Gent St Martinus
• Anje Everts (30)
• Donald "Old Trojan" MacLeod (91), Roghadal, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Gerardus Kox (0), Eersel
• Gerrit Hayes (van der Ploeg) (60), Damwoude
• Frederik van Klingenberg Heer van Hindsels (67)
• Engelbertus (!) Franssen (61), Sint Pieter
• Engelbertus Franssen (61), Maastricht

• 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)

1. Jan
2. Hendrik
3. Johannes
4. Pieter
5. Cornelis
6. Joannes
7. Willem
8. Jacob
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Klaas
14. Jean
15. John
16. Henricus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Trijntje
9. Joanna
10. Grietje
11. Adriana
12. Neeltje
13. Aaltje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Jannetje

• 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)
• February 3 » Spain–United States relations are first established.
• February 5 » In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
• March 15 » In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
• September 3 » American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• November 4 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
• November 29 » A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.

The temperature on December 16, 1783 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist.