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• Albertus Petrus van den Heuvel, Oss († 1956)
• Ailene C VanSkike, Macon County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1978)
• Alida Catharina Roskam, Akersloot
• Adriana Johanna van Dongen, Tilburg († 1969)
• Adrianus Cornelis Ouwendijk, Bodegraven Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Aaltje de Vries, Nijega (Small.)
• Adrianus LEIJEN, Akersloot († 1966)
• Adrianus PADMOS Jzn, Ouddorp, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Adrianus GOMMERS, Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1993)
• Alida Catherina ROSKAM

• Anthonia Schoep (88), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van Zon (0), Rijsenburg
• Aartje Schouten (76), Barneveld
• Antonia Gerrits Schoep (88), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Henrica Tennebroek (2), tilburg
• Alberdine Lammertink (40), Lochem
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• Alida Petronella Maria van der Pluijm (24), Raamsdonk, Geertruidenberg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Mars (81), Urk, Gemeente Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• * Cornelia van der Graaf (71), Gouda

• 1897 » Albert Aalbers, Dutch architect, designed the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel († 1961)
• 1897 » Drew Pearson, American journalist and author († 1969)
• 1900 » Jonel Perlea, Romanian-American conductor and educator († 1970)
• 1901 » Olev Roomet, Estonian singer, violinist, and bagpipe player († 1987)
• 1902 » Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek philosopher and politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece († 1986)
• 1902 » Talcott Parsons, American sociologist and academic († 1979)
• 1903 » Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer († 1993)
• 1903 » Ella Baker, American activist († 1986)
• 1905 » Ann Barzel, American writer and dance critic († 2007)
• 1906 » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark († 1968)

• 1881 » August Šenoa, Croatian author and poet (b. 1838)
• 1883 » Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
• 1893 » Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (b. 1816)
• 1895 » Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800)
• 1908 » Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)
• 1919 » Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850)
• 1922 » Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter and photographer (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
• 1924 » Samuel Gompers, English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor (b. 1850)
• 1927 » Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1856)

• 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
• January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
• March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
• May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
• September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
• October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
• November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

The temperature on December 13, 1901 was between 1.8 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%).