About the day » Tuesday December 9, 1783Calender converter

• Anna Maria Van der Auwera, Mechelen (St. Catharina) († 1849)
• Ariaantje Roskam, Sliedrecht
• Aagje Kerkhoven, Zevenhuizen († 1855)
• Bernardus Buiting, Wehl, Niederlande
• Antonius Jansen, Wijchen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Barbara Cecilia Callewaert, Passendale,8980,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1845)
• Bernardus Beuting, Wehl
• andré jh. MATHIEU, Jemappes (Belgium) Hainaut († 1833)
• Alberdina van Dieren, Groningen († 1871)
• Adriaantje Jacobse Straaijer, Haamstede († 1823)

• Andries Dilles Knippenberg (72), Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Gaspar van der Linde (26), Aarle-Rixtel
• Henricus Coppens (44), Mere
• Beelken (Beijken Bijken) Spronk (=Spronken Sprong) (50), Angerlo (Zevenaar)
• Franz Anton Sartorius (33)
• Grietje Tjipkes Hoitinga (52)
• Freerkje Rykles (40), Leeuwarden
• Henricus Aart Jansen van den Bogaart, Nistelrode
• Andries Knippenberg (81), Nijbroek/vaassen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Henricus Haselhoff (80), Rhedebrügge

• 1728 » Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer († 1804)
• 1742 » Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist († 1786)
• 1745 » Maddalena Laura Sirmen, Italian violinist and composer († 1818)
• 1748 » Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic († 1822)
• 1752 » Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer († 1813)
• 1779 » Tabitha Babbitt, American tool maker and inventor († 1853)
• 1787 » John Dobson, English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower († 1865)
• 1806 » Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician († 1838)
• 1813 » Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist († 1885)
• 1837 » Émile Waldteufel, French pianist, composer, and conductor († 1915)

• 1674 » Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1609)
• 1706 » Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
• 1718 » Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk and cartographer (b. 1650)
• 1761 » Tarabai, Queen of Chatrapati Rajaram (b. 1675)
• 1793 » Yolande de Polastron, French-Austrian educator (b. 1749)
• 1798 » Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (b. 1729)
• 1830 » Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (b. 1757)
• 1854 » Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1799)
• 1858 » Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West (b. 1804)
• 1887 » Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese religious leader

• 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)
• April 18 » Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
• June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
• June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
• August 18 » A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
• October 15 » The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
• November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.

The temperature on December 9, 1783 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: betrokken.