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• Arend Jan WESTENDORP, Aalten, 7090, Gelderland, Nederland († 1831)
• Adriaan Simons, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1841)
• Benedictus DE WAELE, Deinze,9800,Oost-Vlaanderen,Ovl, België († 1787)
• Adriaan Adrianus Simons, Tilburg († 1841)
• Amalberga Van Wauwe, Temse, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1872)
• Adrianus Corneliszoon Simons, Tilburg († 1841)
• Adrianus Simons, Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1841)
• Aaltje Hendriks Krikke, Giethoorn, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana van Treijen
• Aaltje Hendriks Krikke, Giethoorn, Overijssel, Nederland († 1789)

• Agatha Grachten (66), Vlodrop
• Elisabeth Giffers (60), Amsterdam
• Arie Centen Patijn (35), Maasland
• Antonius Lenaerts (60), Dessel,Antwerpen,Belgie
• Charles Benoît de Guibert de Montauban (71), Paris
• Ariaantie Theunise van de Haar (45), Woudenberg
• Ariaantje THEUNIS VAN DE HAER (39), Woudenberg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Guillaume Chabaud (72), Veyrieres
• Jenneke van der Plas, Meeuwen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ariaantje van de HAAR (39), Woudenberg

• 1782 » Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States († 1862)
• 1784 » George Shepherd, English illustrator and painter († 1862)
• 1803 » Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet and diplomat († 1873)
• 1820 » Afanasy Fet, Russian poet and author († 1892)
• 1822 » Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American philosopher and academic, co-founded Radcliffe College († 1907)
• 1829 » Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Premier of Quebec († 1908)
• 1830 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and author († 1894)
• 1839 » George Armstrong Custer, American general († 1876)
• 1841 » Marcus Daly, Irish-American businessman († 1900)
• 1849 » Eduard Seler, German anthropologist, ethnohistorian, linguist, and academic († 1922)

• 1663 » Severo Bonini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1582)
• 1749 » Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian commander and explorer (b. 1685)
• 1758 » Johann Friedrich Fasch, German violinist and composer (b. 1688)
• 1770 » James Stirling, Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692)
• 1784 » Phillis Wheatley, Senegal-born slave, later American poet (b. 1753)
• 1791 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician (b. 1756)
• 1819 » Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (b. 1750)
• 1870 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)

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

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

• 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)
• June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
• June 25 » Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
• June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
• August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
• August 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.

The temperature on December 5, 1786 was about 6.0 °C. There was 110 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken.