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• Anna Augusta Kerkhoff, Gladbeck
• Adrianus van Vliet, Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amandus Franciscus De Wilde, Weert
• Alida Blom, Mijdrecht, Utr, Nederland
• André Notebaert, Elverdinge, België († 1979)
• Albertus Thomas Martinus Smith, Semarang († 1995)
• Ankje Elizabeth Mulder, Makkinga, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje van der Staaij, Hof van Delft
• Anna Hubertina Clermonts, Maastricht († 1913)
• van Beilen, Nieuw-Buinen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1912)

• Arendje Schoonhoven (73), Kampen, Nederland
• Apolonia de Kort (80), Hontenisse
• Anna Margaretha van der Feen (77), Putten
• Adrianus Cornelis Lansbergen (4), Kethel en Spaland
• Arendje Schoonhoven (73), Kampen, Overijssel Nederland
• Adrianus CLAUSMAN (24), Schiedam
• Adrianus KERP Jzn (60), Den Bommel, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Aaltje van Kampen (15), Hilversum
• Anna Maria Léen (16), Lommel, Limburg, België
• adriana SCHIPPER (75), heinenoord

• 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)
• 1909 » W. A. Criswell, American pastor and author († 2002)
• 1910 » Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright, and poet († 1986)
• 1914 » Mel Shaw, American animator and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1915 » Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress († 1963)
• 1915 » Claudia Testoni, Italian hurdler, sprinter, and long jumper († 1998)
• 1916 » Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist, journalist, and academic († 2010)
• 1916 » Roy Ward Baker, English director and producer († 2010)
• 1918 » Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1980)

• 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)
• 1944 » Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)

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

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

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
• January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
• April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
• July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
• October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
• November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
• November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.

The temperature on December 19, 1912 was between 0.2 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.