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• Aaltje Kristeerius, Groningen († 1970)
• Aaltje van der Meer, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1904)
• Andrew Wolfert, Netherlands
• "Charles"' Marie Jacques Roger-Machart, Rambouillet, Yvelines, France († 1989)
• Hans van Terwisga, Aengwirden
• van Keulen, Wieringen († 1902)
• An Tiemens Talhout, Easterlittens, Nederland († 1903)
• Alle Hettinga, Idskenhuizen († 1972)
• Aaltje Hendriks van der Meer, Eastermar, Fryslân, Nederlân († 1904)
• Aagje Broere, Wilnis

• Aagje Boel (63), Ridderkerk
• Albert Kars (1), apeldoorn
• Abraham Adriaan de Bruijne (8), Goes
• Antheunis Wisse (80), Meliskerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje (Aaltien) de Weerd (85), Meppel
• Anna van Schooten (66), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana Maria Hendrina Bolkenstein (56), IJmuiden
• Andries de Graaff (73), Colijnsplaat
• Albert de Boer (81), Steggerda, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Staalstra (0), Franeker, Friesland, Nederland

• 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)
• 1902 » Robert F. Bradford, American lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Massachusetts († 1983)
• 1903 » Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna († 1938)
• 1907 » Gordon Douglas, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1907 » Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and the Cathedral of Brasília († 2012)
• 1908 » Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk, scholar, and author († 2005)
• 1909 » Eliza Atkins Gleason, African American librarian († 2009)
• 1909 » Sattar Bahlulzade, Azerbaijani-Russian painter († 1974)

• 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)
• 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 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
• January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
• February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
• March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
• April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
• June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.

The temperature on December 15, 1902 was between 2.9 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 4.0 °C.