About the day » Sunday December 4, 1791Calender converter

• Aart Hendriksen Rookhuisen, Hell, gem. Putten
• Albertina Antonia Eckringa, Bourtange († 1826)
• Aart Vierhout, Nunspeet
• "Erdmuthe Natalie" Pauline von Rödern, Schloss Hohlstein, Skała, Pologne († 1829)
• Adriana de BRUIJNE, Nieuwe Tonge
• adélaïde POUILLARD, Le Roeulx (Belgium) Hainaut († 1847)
• Andrzej Ludwik Aka Ludwiczak, Roszki, Wielkopolskie, Poland
• Aaltje Adriana Diepenhorst, ameide (zuid holland) († 1824)
• "Johannes" Joannes Joannes, Ammerzoden, NL († 1871)
• Adriana Romijn, hendrik-ido-ambacht (zuid holland)

• Cornelis Kamp (0), Zevenbergen, Gemeente Moerdijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Croon (70), Rotterdam (liet na 4 meerderjarige kinderen)
• Jan Jansz. van NIELEN (4)
• Jacobjen de Wit (0), Uithuizen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Joseph Spruyt (53), Petit-Enghien, 7850, Hainaut, Wallonie, BELGIQUE
• Harpert Houweling (41), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catherine Joseph ESTREMÉ (39), Chercq, 57021, Hainaut, Belgique
• Joannes Baptist Slotmaeckers (70), Boom, Antwerpen, België
• Eunice Pomeroy (40), Westhampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
• Johan Herman Graswinckel (57), Haarlem,Gemeente Haarlem,North Holland,Netherlands

• 1777 » Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman († 1849)
• 1795 » Thomas Carlyle, Scottish-English historian, philosopher, and academic († 1881)
• 1798 » Jules Armand Dufaure, French lawyer and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France († 1881)
• 1817 » Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georgian poet and author († 1845)
• 1835 » Samuel Butler, English author and critic († 1902)
• 1844 » Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1914)
• 1861 » Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland († 1922)
• 1865 » Edith Cavell, English nurse, humanitarian, and saint (Anglicanism) († 1915)
• 1867 » Stanley Argyle, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria († 1940)
• 1868 » Jesse Burkett, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1953)

• 1696 » Empress Meishō of Japan (b. 1624)
• 1732 » John Gay, English poet and playwright (b. 1685)
• 1798 » Luigi Galvani, Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1737)
• 1828 » Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1839 » John Leamy, Irish–American merchant (b. 1757)
• 1841 » David Daniel Davis, Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777)
• 1845 » Gregor MacGregor, Scottish soldier and explorer (b. 1786)
• 1850 » William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (b. 1783)
• 1893 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834)

• 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 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
• March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
• March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
• May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
• August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
• November 9 » Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.

The temperature on December 4, 1791 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken .