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• Albertus Roskam, Heerde, Nederland († 1986)
• Akke van Tuinen, Scharnegoutum/Wymbritseradeel († 1979)
• Adriana Bervoets, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Akke van Tuinen, Scharnegoutum (Wymbritseradeel), Nederland
• Adrianus Hendrikus Oerlemans, Sprang-Capelle, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1927)
• Abraham Noordervliet, 's-Gravenzande,Westland,Zuid Holland,Nederland († 1974)
• Albert Pieterson, Oldemarkt, Overijssel, Nederland († 1946)
• Adriana Poppelaars, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Petronella Mol, Oudenbosch (Halderberge) (Noord-Brabant) († 1979)
• Adriana Severijnen, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1962)

• Alida Hendrika van Ommeren (0), Lienden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonie Vreugdenburg (60), Leiden
• Althea Wickel (3), Elba, Cassia County, Idaho, United States of America
• Adriaantje van den Heuvel (0), Soest
• Adriana Maria Geevers (75), Delft
• Abraham van den Bovenkamp (55), Amerongen
• Abraham van Creveld (74), Veenendaal, Veenendaal, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aaltje van der Veen (0), Twijzel, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Agnes Helena Brüne (23), Oegstgeest
• Alida Hendrika van Ommeren (0), Lienden

• 1885 » Leonid Pitamic, Slovenian lawyer, philosopher, and academic († 1971)
• 1886 » Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, Polish politician and resistance fighter († 1968)
• 1888 » Maxwell Anderson, American journalist and playwright († 1959)
• 1890 » Harry Babcock, American pole vaulter († 1965)
• 1891 » A.P. Carter, American country singer-songwriter and musician († 1960)
• 1892 » J. Paul Getty, American-English businessman and art collector, founded Getty Oil († 1976)
• 1894 » Josef Imbach, Swiss sprinter († 1964)
• 1894 » Vibert Douglas, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1988)
• 1896 » Betty Smith, American author and playwright († 1972)
• 1899 » Harold Abrahams, English sprinter, lawyer, and journalist († 1978)

• 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)

• 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 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.
• January 17 » Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
• April 6 » Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
• August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
• September 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
• September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
• December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

The temperature on December 15, 1893 was about 1.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.