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• * Franciscus Albertus Mosman, Amsterdam († 1994)
• Antje Huizinga, Sint Annaparochie († 1973)
• Adrianus Marinus Kokke, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1904)
• Antje Huizenga, Sint Annaparochie
• Adriaan Jacobus Mul, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1975)
• Albertus Marinus Leeflang, Watergraafsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• Almon Miner Lippincott ****
• Aloysius Horemans, Herenthout, België
• Anna Theodora SCHOONE, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1905)
• Antonius POPPELAARS, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Anna Elisabetha Bakker (69), 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• van Driel (0), Benthuizen
• Schlundt Bodien, Peneleh, Soerabaja
• (Stillborn) VAN DER MEULEN (0)
• Arigje van de Giessen (83), Giessendam
• antonia ROSIER (61), dordrecht
• Anna Maria van den Hoogen (51), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aartje van Loenen (1), Rotterdam
• Barendina Sophia Michon (64), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrienne Henriette Lubeck (27), Amsterdam

• 1901 » Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist and author († 1980)
• 1901 » Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company († 1966)
• 1901 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1902 » Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1988)
• 1902 » Strom Thurmond, American educator, general, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina († 2003)
• 1903 » C. F. Powell, English-Italian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1969)
• 1903 » Johannes Heesters, Dutch-German actor and singer († 2011)
• 1905 » Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (d.1949)
• 1905 » Gus Mancuso, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster († 1984)
• 1905 » Otto Preminger, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer († 1986)

• 1870 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)

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.
• February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
• April 5 » The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh and Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
• June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
• 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 5, 1904 was between 7.4 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.