- Dec 12 Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, Dutch Frisian merchant, poet, and story teller (Rhymes & Tales), dies at 60
- Dec 16 Andries Hendrik Potgieter, South African Transvaal explorer and leader (led Voortrekkers group to settle Transvaal), dies at 59
- Dec 16 Henri-Jean Rigel, French composer, music director, and "pianiste de la musique particulière de l’Empereur et Roi" to Napoleon, dies at 80
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