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• Aloysius Gerardus Dries, Dessel, Antwerpen, België († 1961)
• Aaltje Kist *, Steenwijk († 1993)
• Adele Sophia Sohl, Doon, Lyon County, Iowa († 1981)
• Adriaan van Boven, Kruiningen (Reimerswaal), Zeeland, Nederland († 1963)
• Anna Cornelia Maria van Elzakker, Halsteren,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1988)
• Adriana Noordermeer, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Van Seters, Raamsdonk († 1904)
• Adrianus Johannes Sulsters, Loon op Zand († 1904)
• Albertus Cornelis Bulk, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Albertus Cornelis Bulk, Noordwijk († 1980)

• Adrianus Snabel (23), Ter Aar,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ana Maria van den Eede (66), Stoppeldijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alfridus Van Camp (3), Berchem, 2600, Antwerpen, B
• Aleksandr Ivanovich Mussin-Pushkin (76), Odessa, Ukraine
• Adolph Bernard Christiaan Baron Van Hemert tot Dingshof (58), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Abraham Francke (81), Serooskerke
• Abraham Francke (81), Serooskerke
• Koldenhof (0), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Abraham Kruit (77), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Kruize (24), Groningen

• 1899 » Martin Luther King Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist († 1984)
• 1901 » Fritz Mauruschat, German footballer and manager († 1974)
• 1901 » Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author († 1963)
• 1901 » Rudolf Hell, German engineer, invented the Hellschreiber († 2002)
• 1902 » Ralph Richardson, English actor († 1983)
• 1903 » George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1905 » Giovanni Lurani, Italian race car driver, engineer, and journalist († 1995)
• 1905 » Irving Kahn, American businessman († 2015)
• 1906 » Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union († 1982)
• 1907 » Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-American boxer, actor, and golfer († 2004)

• 1878 » Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Henry Ware Lawton, American general (b. 1843)
• 1915 » Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
• 1927 » Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)
• 1932 » Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 » George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)

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.
• March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
• June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
• June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
• December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The temperature on December 19, 1903 was between -1.1 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -0.4 °C.