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• Andreas Joseph Slangen, Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland († 1993)
• Alida de Geit, Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana de Man, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van de Bovenkamp, Amerongen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Abraham Simon Jan Vogelaar, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van de Bovenkamp, Amerongen,,The Netherlands
• Alida Maria Catharina Nieuwenhof, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Afton Hogan, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States († 1990)
• Alida Vermeer, Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands († 1985)
• Ada Marie Burr, Sandusky, Ohio, United States († 1989)

• Anna Maria Hubertina de France (67), Zwolle, Ov., NL
• Anna Maria van de Goor (71), Nederweert
• Anna Maria LOYENS (68), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Bernardus Venderbosch (65), Terborg
• Bartele Smits (22)
• Adriana (Adriaantje) Biesheuvel (71), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Brondijk (0), Hellum, Groningen, Nederland
• adriana BIESHEUVEL (71), 's-gravendeel(zh)
• Adriaantje Biesheuvel (71), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Constanz Reisig (57), 's Gravenhage

• 1900 » Albert Weisbord, American activist, founded the Communist League of Struggle († 1977)
• 1900 » Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales († 1976)
• 1901 » Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-German author and playwright († 1938)
• 1901 » Jean Mermoz, French pilot and politician († 1936)
• 1902 » Margaret Hamilton, American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist († 1985)
• 1904 » Robert Livingston, American actor and singer († 1988)
• 1905 » Dalton Trumbo, American author, screenwriter, and blacklistee († 1976)
• 1906 » Freddy Martin, American bandleader and tenor saxophonist († 1983)
• 1906 » Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL († 1992)
• 1909 » Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American captain, actor, and producer († 2000)

• 1887 » Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese religious leader
• 1906 » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• March 23 » Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
• April 4 » In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
• April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
• June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
• November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
• December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

The temperature on December 9, 1905 was between 1.2 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.