About the day » Monday December 16, 1793Calender converter

• Ale Scholtman, Heesterkante
• Alle Egberts de Herder, Makkinga, Oldeberkoop, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1874)
• Aarie Kok, Meerkerk († 1851)
• Cornelis Doekes Dobma, Nieuwe Bildtzijl, Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands († 1852)
• Cornelius RAMPELBERG, Zandbergen,9506,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1869)
• Anna Knollenberg, Werpeloh, Niedersachsen, Duitsland
• Alijdis (Aaltje) Kronenburg, Werkhoven († 1865)
• Christianus van Rosmalen, Berlicum, NL
• Anna Knollenberg, Werpeloh
• Calvin Parcus Dains, Royalton, Windsor, Vermont, Verenigde Staten († 1879)

• Aantje (24), Schoonrewoerd
• Henderik Jan Poelders (55), Vorden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Janis Griep, Kruiningen
• Adrianus Lemmens, Bladel
• Janna Baanks, Vorden
• Andries Jans Makkinje (72), Huizen
• Cornelia van Tilborg, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Geertruid Hesselink (47), Almen
• Andries Janszoon Lustig (72), Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Isabella Verbeek (28), Amsterdam

• 1770 » Ludwig van Beethoven, composer († 1827)
• 1775 » François-Adrien Boieldieu, French pianist and composer († 1834)
• 1775 » Jane Austen, English novelist († 1817)
• 1776 » Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher († 1810)
• 1778 » John Ordronaux, French-American soldier († 1841)
• 1787 » Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright († 1855)
• 1790 » Leopold I of Belgium († 1865)
• 1804 » Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician and academic († 1889)
• 1812 » Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales († 1867)
• 1834 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and theorist († 1910)

• 1751 » Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1700)
• 1774 » François Quesnay, French economist, physician, and philosopher (b. 1694)
• 1783 » Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer and educator (b. 1699)
• 1783 » Sir William James, 1st Baronet, Welsh-English commander and politician (b. 1720)
• 1805 » Saverio Cassar, Gozitan priest and rebel leader (b. 1746)
• 1809 » Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755)
• 1859 » Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist and author (b. 1786)
• 1892 » Henry Yesler, American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1810)
• 1897 » Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1898 » Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)

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

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

• 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)
• June 10 » The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
• July 23 » Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
• October 15 » Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death the following day.
• October 16 » War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
• November 3 » French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
• December 23 » The Battle of Savenay: A decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.

The temperature on December 16, 1793 was about 8.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.