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• Anna Antonia Stephanie Dirkx, Baarlo († 1991)
• aaltje van alfen, lienden (Gelderland) († 1905)
• Adrianus Christianus van Rijen, Chaam († 1978)
• Agatha Maria van der Hulst, Zoeterwoude, ZUI, Nederland († 1945)
• Adriana de Roon, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anje Korthuis, Loppersum († 1984)
• Anna Doorgeest, Zaandam
• "Niklas" Maria Joseph Franz Erich Sigmund August Ignatius von Salm-Reifferscheidt, Wien, Autriche († 1970)
• (Stillborn) VOS DE WAEL, Zwolle Overijssel Netherlands († 1904)
• Kentie, Woudrichem, Gemeente Altena, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1904)

• Anna Cornelia Verraes (34)
• Anna Gertrud* Storck (53), Warendorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Anna (Johanna) Langeslag (73), Kamerik
• Adrianus van den Broek (60), Chaam
• Aletta de HEER (34), Mijdrecht
• Aarnoudt Cornelis Huijbregtsen (47), Vlissingen
• Anna Elisabeth ter Voort (34), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Strik (38), Schaijk
• Anna Johanna Langeslag (73), Kamerik
• Aleida Elisabeth Verburgt (37), Elst

• 1901 » Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester († 2004)
• 1902 » Barton MacLane, American actor, playwright, and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1902 » William Bell, American tuba player and educator († 1971)
• 1903 » Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor († 1981)
• 1904 » Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)
• 1906 » Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1906 » Lew Grade, Baron Grade, Ukrainian-English film producer († 1998)
• 1907 » Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader († 1994)
• 1907 » Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel († 1988)
• 1907 » Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-American wrestler and actor († 1990)

• 1875 » Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851)
• 1880 » Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1828)
• 1916 » Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (b. 1845)
• 1921 » Vladimir Korolenko, Russian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1853)
• 1925 » Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1877)
• 1926 » Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
• 1928 » Miles Burke, American boxer (b. 1885)
• 1930 » Jakob Mändmets, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1871)
• 1933 » Francesc Macià, Catalan colonel and politician, 122nd President of Catalonia (b. 1859)
• 1935 » Paul Bourget, French author and critic (b. 1852)

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 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.
• April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
• December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
• 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.

The temperature on December 25, 1904 was between 1.0 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.