About the day » Monday December 24, 1917Calender converter

• ALbertus Sibon, Klazienaveen, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Berend Hendrik Berends, Barger-Compascuum, Emmen († 1917)
• Arie de Vries († 1987)
• van der Kooi, Oenkerk († 1917)
• Anna Helena Lübbers, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1998)
• Abraham J van Roekel, Boyden, Sioux County, Iowa († 2016)
• Burggraaf, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1917)
• Ada Gertrude Zweep, Illinois, United States († 2006)
• Agnes Theodora Maria Filott, Maastricht († 1925)
• Alvina Jeanette Ostendorf († 2000)

• Adrianus Kaarsemaker (0), Wervershoof, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus van Leeuwen (67), Velsen
• Agnes MERTEZ, Dubuque, Dunleith County, Illinois, United States of America
• Anna Maria van den Noort (70), Loon op Zand
• Bernardus Koch (77), Breda
• Anna Cornelia Kriegel (50), Steenbergen
• Burggraaf (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Beugels (0), Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arie Ariesz. van Teeling (86), Numansdorp (ZH Nederland)
• Alida Kunsel (85), Den Haag, den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1913 » Ad Reinhardt, American painter and academic († 1967)
• 1914 » Herbert Reinecker, German author and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1914 » Ralph Marterie, Italian-American trumpet player and bandleader († 1978)
• 1918 » Dave Bartholomew, American bandleader, composer and arranger († 2019)
• 1919 » Pierre Soulages, French artist
• 1919 » Qateel Shifai, Pakistani poet and songwriter († 2001)
• 1920 » Franco Lucentini, Italian author and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1920 » Yevgeniya Rudneva, Ukrainian-Russian lieutenant and navigator († 1944)
• 1921 » Bill Dudley, American football player († 2010)
• 1922 » Ava Gardner, American actress († 1990)

• 1893 » B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia (b. 1807)
• 1898 » Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese priest and saint (b. 1828)
• 1914 » John Muir, Scottish-American geologist, botanist, and author, founded Sierra Club (b. 1838)
• 1920 » Stephen Mosher Wood, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1832)
• 1926 » Wesley Coe, American shot putter, hammer thrower, and discus thrower (b. 1879)
• 1931 » Carlo Fornasini, micropalaeontologist (b. 1854)
• 1931 » Flying Hawk, American warrior, educator and historian (b. 1854)
• 1935 » Alban Berg, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1885)
• 1938 » Bruno Taut, German architect and urban planner (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)

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

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

• 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
• January 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
• March 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
• May 21 » The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
• July 28 » The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
• November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
• December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

The temperature on December 24, 1917 was between -4.5 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.