Historical Events
- Dec 29 British troops occupy Savannah, Georgia
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 6 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist, born in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, Kingdom of France (d. 1850)
- Dec 15 Godert van der Capellen, Dutch statesman (Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, 1819-26), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1848)
- Dec 17 Humphry Davy, English chemist, studied electro-chemistry, invented the Davy lamp), born in Penzance, Cornwall, England (d. 1829)
Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837)
Dec 18 English pantomimist and the "greatest clown in history", born in London
- Dec 19 Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, born at the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France (d. 1851)
- Dec 21 Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish politician, born in Rudkøbing, Denmark (d. 1860)
- Dec 28 Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (d. 1846)
