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• Adrianus van Polanen, Leiden
• Alphons-Franciscus van den ABBEEL, Wichelen
• EILANDER, Wijhe, Overijssel, Nederland († 1905)
• Huisman, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1905)
• Adrianus Pijnacker, Leiden († 1905)
• Adriana Petronella Damen, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1907)
• Anna Guijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1936)
• Anje Wessels FRIK, Zoutkamp (Ulrum) Groningen Netherlands († 1975)
• Albertje Kuiper, Zuid Eschmarke, Lonneker,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alida Catharina Iske, Amsterdam († 1998)

• Adriana van den Ende (27), 's-Gravenzande,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Albertus Johannes Heidenrijk (1), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Arie Kraak (2), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Akke Johannes Werkhoven (70), Zuidlaren, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anne-Marie Cadeau d'Acy (73), château de Villers, Villers-aux-Érables, Somme, France
• Barteld Albert Vonk (4), Groningen
• Adrianus Pijnacker (0), Leiden
• Antonet van den Heuvel (77), Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Houben (4), Echt (Slek)
• Abraham Oele (78), Rilland Bath

• 1901 » Henri Cochet, French tennis player († 1987)
• 1901 » Paul of Greece († 1964)
• 1902 » Frances Bavier, American actress († 1989)
• 1902 » Herbert Feigl, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle († 1988)
• 1903 » Walter Rangeley, English sprinter († 1982)
• 1904 » Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist († 2003)
• 1908 » Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player († 2001)
• 1908 » Mária Szepes, Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1908 » Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1909 » Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)

• 1873 » Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
• 1878 » Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843)
• 1912 » Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1887)
• 1917 » Phil Waller, Welsh rugby player (b. 1889)
• 1920 » George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Julian Sochocki, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1842)
• 1929 » Henry B. Jackson, British admiral (b. 1855)
• 1935 » Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author (b. 1902)
• 1937 » Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (b. 1869)
• 1940 » Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872)

• 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 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
• November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
• November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
• December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.

The temperature on December 14, 1905 was between 4.2 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.