Famous Birthdays
Famous Deaths
- Dec 5 Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, French Canadian trader and explorer of North Dakota and the upper Missouri River, dies at 64
- Dec 10 Gabrielle Chôtelet [La belle Emilie], French writer (Voltaire), dies at 42
- Dec 19 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer, dies at 76
- Dec 20 Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies
- Dec 23 Mark Catesby, English naturalist (Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands), dies at 66
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40-49
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80-89
Over 90