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• Aaltien Tjabels, Haulerwijk († 1862)
• Aaltje Tjabels (Bies) Bakker, Haulerwijk, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands († 1862)
• Adrianus Cornelis Daemen (Geerts), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1863)
• Anna Sophia Juliana Brück, Nordhorn,,Lower Saxony,Germany († 1837)
• Aaltje Tjabels (2) Bakker, ,, Haulerwijk, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands († 1862)
• Antje Sluyter, Berkenrode († 1854)
• Adriaan Berghuys, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1875)
• Aaltje Aarts Prins, Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland († 1859)
• Antje Sluiter (Sluyter) († 1854)
• Aaltje Tjabels Bakker, Haulerwijk († 1862)

• van Kuijk (0), Zeist
• Cornelia Dort van (60), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jan Jansz de Winter (55), Geervliet
• Jan Jansz. de Winter (55), Geervliet
• Cornelia van den Hoven (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafje KAT (23)
• Francois Hooggreef (54), Xanten, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Jan Reinders van den Esschert (50), Epe
• Geesje Jans Bloemberg (62), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• fredrik kaal (57), amsterdam

• 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)
• July 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
• July 31 » The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
• August 2 » The first United States Census is conducted.
• October 9 » A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
• November 1 » Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
• December 26 » Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.

The temperature on December 21, 1790 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.