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• Antoon Jacobus Cornelis van Munnich, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1803)
• Berend Sijmens Koning, Zuidbroek († 1858)
• Barbara WARMOES (WARREMOES), Gits († 1853)
• Catharina Agnes Frangen, Lank
• Cornelia Jans van Santen, Rotterdam
• Anna Speelmans, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Nederland († 1833)
• Anna Margaretha Schulte, Lathen(Emsland)-Oberlangen
• Andries Gerhardus Rietmeijer, Westerlee,Scheemda,Groningen,Niederlande
• Anna Maria Verhagen, Strijp († 1859)
• Adriaantje Daams (Ariaantje) Boekstra (Hoekstra), St Jacobiparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland († 1823)

• Adrianus Johannes Domen (71), Meerle (België)
• Catharina Sleeckx (49), Oudland Halsteren Noord Brabant (Nl)
• Catherine SCHMIDLIN, Burnhaupt-le-Haut, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Anna (Enneken) Ubbink, Winterswijk
• Catharina Betten (80), Kaulille, Luik, België
• Elisabeth Sophie Koefoed (77), Bornholm, Denmark
• Dirk LANGEDIJK VAN BREDERODE (2), Graft
• Adriana Michielsen (65), Weelde (B)
• Antje Jans (25), Putten
• Daniel Mooren (84), Beesel

• 1713 » Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic († 1786)
• 1777 » Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman († 1849)
• 1795 » Thomas Carlyle, Scottish-English historian, philosopher, and academic († 1881)
• 1798 » Jules Armand Dufaure, French lawyer and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France († 1881)
• 1817 » Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georgian poet and author († 1845)
• 1835 » Samuel Butler, English author and critic († 1902)
• 1844 » Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1914)
• 1861 » Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland († 1922)
• 1865 » Edith Cavell, English nurse, humanitarian, and saint (Anglicanism) († 1915)
• 1867 » Stanley Argyle, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria († 1940)

• 1679 » Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher and theorist (b. 1588)
• 1680 » Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
• 1696 » Empress Meishō of Japan (b. 1624)
• 1732 » John Gay, English poet and playwright (b. 1685)
• 1798 » Luigi Galvani, Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1737)
• 1828 » Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1839 » John Leamy, Irish–American merchant (b. 1757)
• 1841 » David Daniel Davis, Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777)
• 1845 » Gregor MacGregor, Scottish soldier and explorer (b. 1786)
• 1850 » William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (b. 1783)

• 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 7 » American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
• June 8 » Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
• August 18 » A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
• 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 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
• November 25 » American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

The temperature on December 4, 1783 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: omtrent helder.