About the day » Tuesday December 11, 1787Calender converter

• Anna Maria Moser, Pottstown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1872)
• Aaltje van der WULP, 's-Gravendeel
• Christine van den Dobbelsteen, batenburg
• Ayse Wiebesz AARDEMA, Terwispel, Opsterlân, Fryslân, Netherlands
• Aaltje van der Wulp, 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1846)
• Catharina Marien, Berlaar († 1860)
• Adrianus or Arij Petrus Tetteroo, Delft († 1853)
• Anna Cornelia Francus, Wilrijk
• Aise Wiebes Aardema, Gorredijk, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Aartsd Van Der WULP, 's-Gravendeel († 1846)

• Amos Hobby (23), Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, UNITED STATES
• Catharina Willems Kappenberg (31), Sijbekarspel
• Cornelis Evertsz. Bais
• Isabella Clara Tommelein, Zarren
• Cristina Swinkels (14)
• Franciscus WALRAVEN (65), Heugem, Limburg, Netherlands
• Catharina Kappenberg (31), Sijbekarspel
• Anna.Maria Claasse, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barbe BOUCHY (68), Aube (57), France
• Edward M. Kingsford (55)

• 1758 » Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, conductor, and educator († 1832)
• 1761 » Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist, economist, and jurist († 1835)
• 1781 » David Brewster, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer († 1868)
• 1801 » Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German poet and playwright († 1836)
• 1803 » Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic († 1869)
• 1810 » Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist († 1857)
• 1830 » Kamehameha V of Hawaii († 1872)
• 1837 » Webster Paulson, English civil engineer († 1887)
• 1838 » John Labatt, Canadian brewer and businessman († 1915)
• 1843 » Robert Koch, German microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1910)

• 1686 » Louis, Grand Condé, French general (b. 1621)
• 1694 » Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
• 1737 » John Strype, English priest, historian, and author (b. 1643)
• 1747 » Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)
• 1797 » Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
• 1826 » Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
• 1840 » Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771)
• 1872 » Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
• 1880 » Oliver Winchester, American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (b. 1810)
• 1892 » William Milligan, Scottish theologian and scholar (b. 1821)

• 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)
• January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
• February 3 » Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
• May 25 » After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of seven states is secured.
• June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
• July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
• October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.

The temperature on December 11, 1787 was about 6.0 °C.