About the day » Tuesday December 4, 1792Calender converter

• BERNARDUS VAN ACKER, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Arnoldus Petrus van der Meijden, Boxtel
• Christoffel Kante, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1864)
• Aagje Rooseboom, Waarder, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1835)
• Anthonij Huijbers, Beek en Donk († 1876)
• Adriaan Jacob MIKHOUT, Dordrecht
• Christoffel Jansz Maliepaard, Fijnaart, 4793, Nederland († 1799)
• Albertus van Dortmond, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bastiaan Jeroensz Bogaard van den, Oegstgeest († 1853)
• Christina van de Geijn, Leeuwen († 1843)

• Florus Hollebrandse (37), Westkapelle
• Anna Catharina (Catrin) Proosten #8 (66), Geleen, Limburg, Nl
• Fran√ßois Antoine WERNER (45), Thann (68800, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Antonia Helsemans (7), Bladel
• Floris Adriaanse Hollebrandse (37), Westkapelle, 4361, Nederland
• Baertje Jansdr Kerving (Korvingh) (88), Scheveningen
• Daniel Trowbridge (66), Bridgewater, Litchfield, CT
• Huijbert Jans van Oostrum (75), Lopikerkapel
• Catherine Thérèse DUPAIX (77), Gembloux, 5030, Namur, Belgique
• Claas Jansz Noordermeer (60), Oudenhoorn

• 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)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Joannes
9. Jacob
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Klaas
14. John
15. Adrianus
16. Arij

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Grietje
8. Trijntje
9. Joanna
10. Aaltje
11. Neeltje
12. Antje
13. Adriana
14. Marie
15. Elizabeth
16. Jannetje

• 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)
• March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
• April 20 » France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
• May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
• June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• August 10 » French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
• September 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.

The temperature on December 4, 1792 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist.