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• Agnes Isabel Prizer, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1990)
• Aafje van der Wind, Barwoutswaarder(Woerden)
• Anna Pietronella van Bavel, Oosterhout, Gemeente Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Korpel, Schiedam
• Anna Maria Theodora Petronella Peeters, Haps, Cuijk, Noord-Brabant, Nl († 1937)
• Adriaantje Bastemeijer, Poortugaal
• Jongkoen, Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Wouters, Hulsberg, Nuth († 1987)
• Alphonsus Maria van den Boogaard, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• Alida van der Nagel, Katwijk († 1972)

• Antje Alberts Visser (81), Terschelling
• August Brantegem (76), Letterhoutem, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Amelberga Pauwels (74), Temse (Oost-Vlaanderen, België)
• Auke Wytzes van der Ploeg (20), Opende, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Franken (57), Beemster
• Antje Alberts Visser (81), Terschelling, Friesland, Nederland
• Anthony Gustaaf van Lintelo de Geer (46), Haarlem,Gemeente Haarlem,North Holland,Netherlands
• Aalbert Kleij (71), Rotterdam
• Adriaan Tempelaars (58), Dongen
• Adriaan Tempelaars (58), Dongen

• 1890 » Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American pianist and composer († 1959)
• 1892 » Marcus Lee Hansen, American historian, author, and academic († 1938)
• 1894 » E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye († 1938)
• 1894 » James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist († 1961)
• 1899 » Arthur Leslie, English-Welsh actor and playwright († 1970)
• 1899 » John Qualen, Canadian-American actor († 1987)
• 1900 » Ants Oras, Estonian-American author and academic († 1982)
• 1900 » Sun Li-jen, Chinese general and politician († 1990)
• 1902 » Wifredo Lam, Cuban-French painter († 1982)
• 1903 » Zelma Watson George, Black American opera singer († 1994)

• 1885 » William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)
• 1886 » Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)
• 1894 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
• 1903 » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 » Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Camille Jenatzy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1868)
• 1914 » Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (b. 1861)
• 1914 » Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1828)
• 1917 » Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836)
• 1918 » Josip Štadler, Croatian archbishop (b. 1843)

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

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

• 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 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
• May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
• June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
• June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
• December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
• December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

The temperature on December 8, 1896 was about 4.5 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.