About the day » Thursday December 3, 1789Calender converter

• Allegonda van Deursen, Geffen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• , Heerde († 1815)
• Auke Aukes Posthumus, Stiens
• Antje Hanses Blom, Eastermar, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Nederland († 1847)
• Auke Aukes Posthumus, Stiens, gem. Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1839)
• Barbara Theresia De Roeck, Antwerpen, België († 1821)
• Adrianus van Peppen, Amersfoort († 1829)
• Antje Hanzes Blom, Oostermeer, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1847)
• Arnold Göbel, Banfe, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1855)
• Barbara Veugelaers, Roermond († 1857)

• Antje Tol (0), Warmenhuizen
• Barbara Decuyper (0), Moorslede
• Genevieve Otis (56), Baie St Paul, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Adriaana Buijse (0), Hoek
• Catherine RICHARD RICHART, Battenheim, 68, Haut Rhin, France
• Anna Hasselaar (84), Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Cilia Greeten (78), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Leijen (25), Hoogkarspel
• (Johan) Conraad of Conraat Hofman (79), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Berkhoff (16), Paramaribo, Suriname

• 1755 » Gilbert Stuart, American painter († 1828)
• 1793 » Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, English painter and academic († 1867)
• 1800 » France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer († 1849)
• 1810 » Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord, American author and political essayist († 1879)
• 1826 » George B. McClellan, American general and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey († 1885)
• 1833 » Carlos Finlay, Cuban epidemiologist and physician († 1915)
• 1838 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic († 1916)
• 1838 » Octavia Hill, English activist and author († 1912)
• 1838 » Princess Louise of Prussia († 1923)
• 1842 » Phoebe Hearst, American philanthropist and activist († 1919)

• 1706 » Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (b. 1637)
• 1765 » Lord John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (b. 1713)
• 1789 » Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
• 1815 » John Carroll, American archbishop (b. 1735)
• 1876 » Samuel Cooper, American general (b. 1798)
• 1882 » Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1811)
• 1888 » Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
• 1892 » Afanasy Fet, Russian author and poet (b. 1820)
• 1894 » Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (b. 1850)

• 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 30 » Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
• April 20 » George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
• 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 11 » Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
• July 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
• September 15 » The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.

The temperature on December 3, 1789 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.