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• Alida Gebina Anna Croon, Groningen († 1958)
• Johannes van Lit, Tricht / Buurmalsen
• Adriaan van Oerle, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1919)
• Aldert Robijn, Dantumadeel (Friesland) († 1968)
• Alphonse Auguste Marie Baudry, Saint Philibert de Bouaine, 85660, France
• Aldegondis Martha Froyen, Alken, België († 1962)
• Alberic Emile Dewulf, St. Andries-Brugge
• Roetert, Diepenveen,Overijssel,Netherlands († 1895)
• Aafje Cornelia Beekenkamp, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1896)
• Adriana Stam, Brandwijk († 1895)

• Anthony Aemilius Pool (78), Pasuruan (Jawa Timur, Indonesia)
• Anthonius Sanders (44), Zevenaar
• Arend Reuvekamp (70), Oosterhuizen (Apeldoorn)
• August Frederik Lodeizen (71), Dokkum
• Mooijman, stompwijk
• August Nicolaas Hubert PEREY (85), Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
• Alida van Wamelen (87), Schiedam
• Adrianus van de Put (10), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van Rossem (12), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• August L. Bruhn (54), Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States

• 1888 » Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian and academic († 1980)
• 1890 » Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1890 » Yvonne Arnaud, French pianist, actress and singer († 1958)
• 1891 » Erik Almlöf, Swedish triple jumper († 1971)
• 1894 » Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia († 1978)
• 1898 » Irene Dunne, American actress and singer († 1990)
• 1898 » Konstantinos Dovas, Greek general and politician, 156th Prime Minister of Greece († 1973)
• 1899 » Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Welsh preacher and physician († 1981)
• 1900 » Lissy Arna, German film actress († 1964)
• 1901 » Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic, invented the Van de Graaff generator († 1967)

• 1862 » Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (b. 1791)
• 1880 » Gaspar Tochman, Polish-American colonel and lawyer (b. 1797)
• 1893 » George C. Magoun, American businessman (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Upendrakishore Ray, Indian painter and composer (b. 1863)
• 1916 » Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Lucien Petit-Breton, French-Argentinian cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1919 » Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1835)
• 1920 » Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)
• 1921 » Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852)
• 1927 » Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)

• 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 May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
• February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
• May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
• September 3 » John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
• October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
• October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.

The temperature on December 20, 1895 was about 1.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.