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• * Willem Boerdam, Vlaardingen († 1969)
• Albert Jan Schepers, Slagharen († 1969)
• Albert BOER, Grolloo († 1989)
• Aloijsia Adriana Maria Jansen, Tilburg
• Adriana Catharina van Aert, Zundert
• Alida Lindeman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1979)
• Adriana Hendrika Sijgje van Baaren, Rotterdam
• Aafke Boersma, minnertsga
• 'n Levenloos geboren dochter van Koeleman, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 1891)
• Albert Boer, Grolloo, Rolde

• Albertus Kraaijenbrink (1), Arnhem
• Abeltje Hendriks Woudsma (45), Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Anje Reker (84), Ezinge, Winsum (Groningen)
• Abraham van Raalte (9), Amersfoort
• Alida Hendrika van Dissel (0), Kralingen
• Adrianus van Meeteren (2), Tiel, Nederland
• Albert Hekhuis (18), Sleen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Diphoorn)
• Anthonia Bunte (62), Driebergen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Albert Nijenhuis (13), Arriën
• Anje (Antoons) REKER (84), Ezinge, Winsum, Groningen, Nederland

• 1886 » Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, and poet († 1918)
• 1887 » Joseph Lamb, American pianist and composer († 1960)
• 1887 » Lynn Fontanne, British actress († 1983)
• 1888 » Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter († 1949)
• 1890 » Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author († 1946)
• 1890 » Rudolf Schlichter, German painter and illustrator († 1955)
• 1890 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic († 1951)
• 1892 » Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian captain, poet, and author († 1969)
• 1893 » Homer N. Wallin, American admiral († 1984)
• 1893 » Sylvia Townsend Warner, English author and poet († 1978)

• 1867 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
• 1882 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 15 » Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
• March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
• April 1 » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
• May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
• August 16 » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
• October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.

The temperature on December 6, 1891 was about 10.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.