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• Anna Maria Josephina Heuts, Munstergeleen,, Limburg, Nederland († 1991)
• Alice Berendiena Nonhof, Cedar Grove, Wisconsin († 1971)
• Abraham Jacob Bertou, Oostburg († 1974)
• Klösters, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1903)
• Adriana Klara Vink, Noordwijk († 1990)
• Aaltina Annechiena * Stuut, Nieuw-Buinen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1916)
• Adrianus Oskam, Moordrecht († 1968)
• Anthonia Schmitz
• Aartje VERSTEEG, Veenendaal,Utrecht,NEDERLAND
• Amy Irene Flowers, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada († 1999)

• Antoon Dirix (Derrix, Dirkx) (70), Zussen, Riemst, België
• Annegien Langejans (51)
• Aafje VEERMAN (0)
• Aletta van Heukelom (80), Delft
• Adriana De Visser (79), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Annelien Swart (74), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Annigje Prangsma (33), Slagharen
• Anna Engel Strater (64), Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Alexander Vasilievich Meshchersky (81)
• Aletta van Heukelom (80), Delft

• 1898 » Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician († 1974)
• 1899 » Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director († 1963)
• 1900 » Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter († 1973)
• 1901 » Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor and composer († 1980)
• 1903 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1905 » Kenneth Rexroth, American poet, translator, and academic († 1982)
• 1905 » Pierre Brasseur, French-Italian actor and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1905 » Pierre Levegh, French ice hockey player and race car driver († 1955)
• 1907 » Peggy Ashcroft, English actress († 1991)
• 1908 » Giacomo Manzù, Italian sculptor and academic († 1991)

• 1870 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836)
• 1880 » George Eliot, English novelist and poet (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)
• 1899 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
• 1902 » Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)
• 1918 » Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (b. 1864)
• 1925 » Amelie Beese, German pilot and engineer (b. 1886)

• 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 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
• July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
• July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
• August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
• October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

The temperature on December 22, 1903 was between -1.7 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -0.3 °C.