About the day » Sunday December 6, 1789Calender converter

• Aaltje SALIJ, Barendrecht († 1819)
• Aafke Cornelissen, Slochteren, Nederland († 1862)
• Adriana Fransoijsa Logger (Loggeren), Breda
• Abraham Estopij, Houten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida Verel, Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1855)
• (Esp) Ambrocio de la Encarnacion Ruiz, Tepusco, Teocaltiche, Jalisco, Mexico
• Aaltje de Groot, Asperen, Gelderland, The Netherlands († 1834)
• Adriaan Willem Vishoek, Fijnaart en Heiningen († 1841)
• Aalbert van Brummen († 1856)
• Aleida Jansen, Deventer († 1844)

• Adriaantje Arijsse Coomans (77), Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Gerrit Wassink (69), Wilp
• Anna Maria Elisabeth (Johann Hermann Kriege, Johann Heinrich Meyer Zu Natrup Gen. Dransmann) Glasmeyer (72), Hagen/Beckerode, Fürstbistum Osnabrück
• Anna Elisabeth Glasmeyer (72), Hagen/Beckerode, Fürstbistum Osnabrück
• Benedictia Benjamins (67), Amsterdam
• Anna Elisabeth Glasmeyer (72), Südenfeld
• Anna Catharina Emming (0), Altharen, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Arend Jeens (45), Ureterp
• Carl Josephus v. Rotberg (66), Schliengen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Jacob Bez (1)

• 1752 » Gabriel Duvall, American jurist and politician († 1844)
• 1778 » Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist († 1850)
• 1792 » William II of the Netherlands († 1849)
• 1803 » Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony († 1829)
• 1805 » Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician († 1871)
• 1805 » Richard Hanson, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of South Australia († 1876)
• 1812 » Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman and philanthropist († 1884)
• 1823 » Max Müller, German-English philologist and orientalist († 1900)
• 1827 » William Arnott, Australian biscuit manufacturer and founder of Arnott's Biscuits († 1901)
• 1833 » John S. Mosby, American colonel († 1916)

• 1716 » Benedictus Buns, Dutch priest and composer (b. 1642)
• 1718 » Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1674)
• 1746 » Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1665)
• 1771 » Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist and pathologist (b. 1682)
• 1779 » Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
• 1788 » Jonathan Shipley, English bishop (b. 1714)
• 1855 » William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
• 1867 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)

• 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)
• July 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
• August 26 » The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
• August 28 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
• September 11 » Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• October 5 » French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
• December 11 » The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.

The temperature on December 6, 1789 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist.