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• Anna Hendrina Ootmar, Amsterdam († 1838)
• Clasiena de Vries, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonio Valencia, Popayan, Colombia († 1838)
• Age Jans Hingst, Workum, Nijefurd, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Christina John, Heimbach-Neuwied, Rheinland-Pfalz, Duitsland († 1836)
• Anna Catharina Cuijpers († 1846)
• Cornelia (Neetje) Veelenturf, Noorden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1845)
• Adrianus Sieters, Schoonhoven, Zuid Holland, Netherlands († 1844)
• Cornelia VEELENTURF, Noorden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1845)
• Antonia Vermeulen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• Antje de Jong (0), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Bastiaan van Kooten (73), Dussen
• Gerbrandus ter Luyn (0), Alkmaar
• Antje Lolles (0), Bolsward
• Guilielmus De Boeck, Lier, 2500, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Hendrina Huismans (Huijsmans) (70), Zevenaar
• Godefridus Stevens (44), Rosmeer, België
• Antoine Jauffred (78), ( Villar d'Abas ) Uvernet Fours
• Agnes Riool (10), Rotterdam
• Antonij Seviel (74), Alem

• 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)

• 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)
• 1897 » Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)

• 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)
• March 11 » The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
• March 22 » The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
• April 9 » The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784.
• June 4 » Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
• August 23 » Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
• October 22 » Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

The temperature on December 16, 1784 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: betrokken.