Birthdays in History
Deaths in History
- Dec 6 Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
- Dec 23 Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (founded the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal), dies at 70,
- Dec 26 Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (b. 1715)
- Dec 27 Henri Pitot, Italian-French engineer, dies at 76