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• Alphonsus Johannes Andreas Verberne, Beckum,Gemeente Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1995)
• Adrianus Henricus Joannes van Empel, Tilburg, NB Netherlands († 1956)
• Anna van der Windt, Vlaardingen
• AGATHA MARIA WASSENAAR, LISSE, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1909)
• Antje Aukina Robbes, Oudeschans, Bellingwolde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1974)
• Anna van Meeteren, Tricht
• Alina Maria Josephina De Kesel, Adegem,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Maria Reulen, Kerkrade († 1964)
• Aaltje Dina van Lare, Groede
• Andries Willem Nieuwenhuize, Yerseke

• Aafke Schoonbeek (50), Termunten (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Adriaan Eekels (34), Vught
• Adrianus Quint (82), Stolwijk
• Archange Scott (65), Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Agatha van Wandelen (68), 's Gravenhage
• Annigje de Jong (53), Sully, Jasper, Iowa, United States
• Abraham Uriah Lively (61), Keya Paha Co., Nebraska
• Bastiaan Jacob BENJERT (59), Goudswaard
• Ane Kristine Jacobsen (11), Hørmested, Horns, Hjørring, Denmark
• Anna Geertruij van Eijndt (76), Maartensdijk

• 1899 » Martin Luther King Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist († 1984)
• 1901 » Fritz Mauruschat, German footballer and manager († 1974)
• 1901 » Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author († 1963)
• 1901 » Rudolf Hell, German engineer, invented the Hellschreiber († 2002)
• 1902 » Ralph Richardson, English actor († 1983)
• 1903 » George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1905 » Giovanni Lurani, Italian race car driver, engineer, and journalist († 1995)
• 1905 » Irving Kahn, American businessman († 2015)
• 1906 » Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union († 1982)
• 1907 » Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-American boxer, actor, and golfer († 2004)

• 1878 » Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Henry Ware Lawton, American general (b. 1843)
• 1915 » Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
• 1927 » Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)
• 1932 » Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 » George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Jacob
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
• January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
• February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
• February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
• December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

The temperature on December 19, 1904 was between -2.7 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.