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• Anna Maria Johanna Noppen, Renkum († 2000)
• Alvin Oliver Flatness, Worth Co, Ia († 1964)
• Albert Johannes Lobbes, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Andrew Woodgerd Johnston, Salt Creek Township, Hocking County, Ohio
• Aartje Groothuis, Ermelo
• Antonie Jan Willekus, Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abel Van den Berg, Onderdendam, Bedum,, Groningen, Nederland († 1969)
• Aouko Krol, Tjamsweer, Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Carter Dunaway, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• Antoni Arnold Hassink, Nordhorn (Nedersaksen), Duitsland

• Aaltjen Menneken (82), Nijverdal (Hellendoorn)
• Adrianus Marinus van Soest (86), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abel Aben (67), Leiden
• Adriana Rijm (5), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel
• (88), Zoeterwoude, ZH, Nederland
• Anthonius van Meer (66), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Andreas Julianus VERHAEGHE (71), Gijverinkhove, Belgium
• Aaltje Menneken (82), Nijverdal (Hellendoorn), Ov, The Netherlands
• "Pasquale" Baylen Maria del Carmine Giovanni Battista Vincenzo Ferreri Michele Arcangelo Francesco di Paola Ferdinando Francesco di Assisi Luigi Re Alfonso Gaetano Guiseppe Pietro Paolo Ginno Luigi Gonzaga Giovan Giuseppe de La Croce Gaspare Melchior (52), château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France
• Albert Reinds (45), Kallenkote, Nederland

• 1892 » Walter Hagen, American golfer († 1969)
• 1896 » Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II († 1968)
• 1900 » Luis Arturo González López, Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president († 1965)
• 1905 » Anthony Powell, English author († 2000)
• 1905 » Käte Fenchel, German mathematician († 1983)
• 1909 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese journalist and author († 1992)
• 1911 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player († 1947)
• 1913 » Arnold Friberg, American illustrator and painter († 2010)
• 1914 » Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist and virologist († 2010)
• 1915 » Werner von Trapp, Austrian-American singer († 2007)

• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)

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

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

• 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 5.4 million citizens.
• January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
• January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
• February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
• December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

The temperature on December 21, 1904 was between -2.8 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.