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• Alexander Frederik van de Vijver, Salatiga
• Adrianus Martinus Borsje, Naaldwijk
• Aaltje Baukes Veldman, no. 447, Oldeboorn, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1927)
• Aart Bastiaan Jacob Hoogendoorn, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Adrianus Johannes Stam, Beverwijk
• Alida Vancanneyt, Aartrijke († 1975)
• Alle van der Meulen, Kortehemmen, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertus van Lavieren, Ochten († 1980)
• Aaltje van den Brink, Ede († 1986)
• Aaltje van den Brink, Lunteren, Gelderland, Nederland

• Anna Maria van Meerendonk (41), Tilburg
• Aaltje THEUNIS (20), Idaarderadeel
• Anna (Maria) Timmermans (63), Haren
• Aaltje Wiegers Elzinga (20), Wartena, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Wilhemina (68), Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Anna Timmermans (63), Haren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alberdina Hendrika Katoen (83), Harlingen
• Anna Dorothea Robberechts (75), korbeek lo Vl.Brabant
• Aaltje Knuppe (75), Gramsbergen
• Adrianus Raaijmakers (0), Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

• 1899 » Jean de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator († 1937)
• 1900 » Albert Weisbord, American activist, founded the Communist League of Struggle († 1977)
• 1900 » Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales († 1976)
• 1901 » Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-German author and playwright († 1938)
• 1901 » Jean Mermoz, French pilot and politician († 1936)
• 1902 » Margaret Hamilton, American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist († 1985)
• 1904 » Robert Livingston, American actor and singer († 1988)
• 1905 » Dalton Trumbo, American author, screenwriter, and blacklistee († 1976)
• 1906 » Freddy Martin, American bandleader and tenor saxophonist († 1983)
• 1906 » Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL († 1992)

• 1887 » Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese religious leader
• 1906 » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)

• 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 5.3 million citizens.
• April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
• July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
• July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
• November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
• November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
• December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

The temperature on December 9, 1903 was between 3.0 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.2 °C.