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• Aagje de Rooij, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Bertha Josepha Brouwers, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1945)
• Clément Sanspoux († 1979)
• Adriana Klazina van Eck, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Albertus van Geest, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Sieka Stuut, Zuidwending (gem Veendam)
• Albert de Jonge, Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland († 1985)
• Aline MOENAERT, Torhout
• Kraster, Kolham, Groningen, Nederland († 1907)
• Adrianus Schravesande, Rotterdam

• Aart Vermeulen (86), Willige Langerak, Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika Kamp (0), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adriana van Eck (70), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana van Eck (70)
• Aafje Dozij (66), Uitgeest, Nederland
• Anthonia Anna Overwater (86), Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana SCHIMMEL (0), maasdriel
• van Mullem (0), Moordrecht
• Aaltje Hammink (42), Ambt Almelo
• Antje Tjitzes Veenstra (70), Schoterland, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1902 » Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1988)
• 1903 » C. F. Powell, English-Italian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1969)
• 1903 » Johannes Heesters, Dutch-German actor and singer († 2011)
• 1905 » Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (d.1949)
• 1905 » Gus Mancuso, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster († 1984)
• 1905 » Otto Preminger, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer († 1986)
• 1907 » Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic († 1993)
• 1907 » Lin Biao, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1971)
• 1910 » Abraham Polonsky, American director and screenwriter († 1999)
• 1911 » Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer († 2000)

• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)
• 1942 » Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
• January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
• May 28 » The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
• August 31 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognizes Russian preeminence in northern Persia, while Russia recognizes British preeminence in southeastern Persia and Afghanistan. Both powers pledge not to interfere in Tibet.
• October 27 » Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
• December 19 » Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
• December 31 » The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.

The temperature on December 5, 1907 was between 2.4 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.