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• Adrianus Maria Verhoeven, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1904)
• Adriana van den Berg, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van den Hoven, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendricus Kozel, ,, den Haag, Nederland
• Alice Maria Anna RENIER, Emelgem,8870,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Alphons Rombaut, Serskamp Oost Vlaanderen *
• Agnès SOENEN, Handzame, 8610, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1989)
• Alina Maria Helena Adriaans, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Michies, Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1904)
• "Alfons" Maria Ernst Karl Leopold Paar, Wien, Autriche († 1979)

• Albert ter Meulen (87), Steenwijk
• Agatha Beerse- (0), Heerhugowaard, Nederland
• Berend Slingenberg (0), Hoogeveen
• Annie Mae Wilson (4), Rutherford County, North Carolina
• Anna Maria van Laarhoven (72), Vught
• Anna Maria van der Donk (36), Delft
• Agatha Beerse (0), Heerhugowaard
• Barnardus Smeding (86), Hoogland
• Anje Bennema (60), Assen
• Anna Maria van Laarhoven (72), Vught

• 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)
• 1910 » John Hammond, American record producer and critic († 1987)

• 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)

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

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

• 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.
• February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
• March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
• April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
• July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
• September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
• December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

The temperature on December 15, 1903 was between 2.8 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 3.7 °C.