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• Antonia Braet, Swanenburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1825)
• Aart BOEREN, Numansdorp
• Anna Johannes Hofman, Donkerbroek,Ooststellingwerf,Friesland,Nederland († 1865)
• Coleta Bernardina Bockstael, Assenede, Assenede, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Cecilia (Sientje) Rietveld, Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1868)
• Anne Johannes Hofma, Donkerbroek, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1865)
• Anne Johannes Hofma, Donkerbroek (Frl) († 1865)
• Anne Johannes Hofman, Donkerbroek (Frl) († 1865)
• "Joannes" Johannis Johannis, Sint-Oedenrode († 1843)
• Christina Andriessen van Geitenbeek, Woudenberg

• Catharina Maria Francken (76), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arendje Bastiaans Bijl (59), Heenvliet
• Cornelia Kruisifikx (0), Rotterdam
• Anna SPANJART (68)
• Aaltje Pieters, Terwispel
• Angela Knapen, Weert
• Ariaentje Bastiaansd. Bijl (73), Heenvliet
• Arijaantje Bijl (71), Heenvliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia Maximiliane van Arco (50)
• Arendje Bastiaansdr BIJL (73), Heenvliet, Provincie Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1789 » Carlos Soublette, Venezuelan general and politician, 11th President of Venezuela († 1870)
• 1832 » Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower († 1923)
• 1837 » E. W. Bullinger, English minister, scholar, and theologian († 1913)
• 1852 » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1908)
• 1859 » L. L. Zamenhof, Polish linguist and ophthalmologist, created Esperanto († 1917)
• 1860 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager († 1953)
• 1860 » Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and educator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1904)
• 1861 » Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company († 1938)
• 1861 » Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd President of Finland († 1944)
• 1863 » Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and engineer († 1935)

• 1688 » Gaspar Fagel, Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1634)
• 1688 » Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French nobleman (b. 1636)
• 1715 » George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
• 1753 » Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect and politician, designed Chiswick House (b. 1694)
• 1792 » Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish pianist, violinist, and composer (b. 1756)
• 1812 » Shneur Zalman, Russian rabbi, author and founder of Chabad (b. 1745)
• 1819 » Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
• 1855 » Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)
• 1878 » Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)

• 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 2 » Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• January 18 » The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
• March 6 » The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
• March 21 » A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
• June 11 » Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
• September 13 » The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.

The temperature on December 15, 1788 was about -10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: helder.