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• Aartje Timmer, Opheusden, 4043, Nederland († 1988)
• Adriana Johanna van de Belt, Soest († 1947)
• Adriana Maatje van der Valk, Zierikzee († 1987)
• Annigje Post, Ambt Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Willebrodus Johannes Mol, Breda
• Adriana Trommel, 's-Gravenhage, ZUI, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Bardoel, Gemert († 1952)
• Antonius Franciscus Hoogenboom, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1906)
• Adriana Trommel, Den Haag
• Arie Struijk († 1986)

• Aaltjen Scholten (81), Rekken
• Aaltje Beukema (51), Eenrum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Nikliborc, Polanka Wielka, Polanka Wielka, Oświęcim, Poland
• Antonie Boeren (80), Den Haag
• Albertus de Boer (61), Appelscha
• Anna Gertrudis Knippenberg (66), Asselt, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adriaan Wisse (0), Vrouwenpolder, Zeeland, NL
• Albertus Dirk van WELY (90), Dodewaard (Gelderland, The Netherlands)
• Adriaan van Hintum (86), Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Maaskant (55), Waddinxveen

• 1902 » Robert F. Bradford, American lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Massachusetts († 1983)
• 1903 » Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna († 1938)
• 1907 » Gordon Douglas, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1907 » Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and the Cathedral of Brasília († 2012)
• 1908 » Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk, scholar, and author († 2005)
• 1909 » Eliza Atkins Gleason, African American librarian († 2009)
• 1909 » Sattar Bahlulzade, Azerbaijani-Russian painter († 1974)
• 1910 » John Hammond, American record producer and critic († 1987)
• 1911 » Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and illustrator († 1991)
• 1911 » Stan Kenton, American pianist and composer († 1979)

• 1855 » Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)
• 1878 » Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)
• 1943 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
• 1944 » Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• 1947 » Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
• 1958 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)

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

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

• 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
• February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
• April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
• April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
• September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
• December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

The temperature on December 15, 1906 was between -1.8 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.