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• Anna Catharina Cooymans, Beerse († 1851)
• Anna Albertine Josephine Maria van Montmorency-Luxemburg, Parijs († 1863)
• Anna Nicolaas Tresling, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1864)
• Anna van Loon, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1856)
• "Catharina" Cornelisdr KAANDORP, Heiloo († 1835)
• Andries van der Vlist, Bodegraven († 1827)
• Anna Catharina Schulte, Sünninghausen, Westfalen, Preussen, D
• Albert Simonsz. Vos, Oudeschild († 1864)
• Anne Albertine Joséphine Marie de Montmorency-Luxembourg, Paris († 1863)
• Anna Maria van Simmeren, Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Celis van Woerkens (0), Middelburg
• Cornelia van Eijk (26), Gouderak, Nederland
• Christine Marioth (41)
• Joannes van der Mark (0), Wassenaar
• Joost Groen (43), Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• cornelia van EIJK, gouderak
• Emerentianus van Berne (0), Dinther. NL
• Andrieske (Andrisina) Sjoukes Kroes (2), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Andrieske Sjoukes Kroes, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Jacobus Retel (0), Haarlem

• 1778 » Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Denmark († 1860)
• 1795 » Jack Russell, English priest, hunter, and dog breeder († 1883)
• 1795 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian, author, and academic († 1886)
• 1803 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic († 1894)
• 1804 » Benjamin Disraeli, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1881)
• 1805 » Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist and academic († 1869)
• 1811 » Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop († 1882)
• 1815 » Thomas Couture, French painter and educator († 1879)
• 1820 » William H. Osborn, American businessman († 1894)
• 1830 » Bartolomé Masó, Cuban soldier and politician († 1907)

• 1701 » Sir Hugh Paterson, Baronet of Bannockburn (b. 1659)
• 1807 » John Newton, English soldier and minister (b. 1725)
• 1824 » James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755)
• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)

• 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 21 » The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth by William Hill Brown, is printed in Boston.
• April 28 » Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
• July 12 » In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
• July 27 » The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
• August 26 » The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
• November 21 » North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.

The temperature on December 21, 1789 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken.