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• Anna van Drunen, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Nieuwenhuis, Westervoort
• Anna Maria Frunt, Berlicum († 1906)
• * Andries Godfried Paardekooper, 's Gravenhage († 1958)
• Jantje Rump, Meppel
• Anna Catharina VOOGT, Rotterdam, 6240, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Albert Franz Johannes Wirtz, Recklinghausen, Duitsland
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina LAUWAARS, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus Daalmeijer, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Henrica Petronella (Riek) Schriks, Beek en Donk († 1979)

• Aukje Bakker (18), Gemeente Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Geerts Meijer (77)
• Afke Pieters Link (83)
• Anna de Groot (32), Winschoten, Nederland
• Alphonsus Maria Johannes Cornelis Staffhorst (0), Utrecht,Gemeente Utrecht,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Aafke Pieters Link (83), Westernijkerk, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Pieter Hemmink (0), Almelo
• Anna Laporte (83), Tienen, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen
• Aaltje van der Huizen (62), Windeweer, Hoogezand-Sappermeer, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonie Sulsters (72), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1900 » Lissy Arna, German film actress († 1964)
• 1901 » Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic, invented the Van de Graaff generator († 1967)
• 1902 » Prince George, Duke of Kent († 1942)
• 1902 » Sidney Hook, American philosopher and author († 1989)
• 1904 » Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1984)
• 1904 » Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author († 1977)
• 1905 » Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster († 1992)
• 1907 » Paul Francis Webster, American soldier and songwriter († 1984)
• 1908 » Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer († 1994)
• 1909 » Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician († 2000)

• 1880 » Gaspar Tochman, Polish-American colonel and lawyer (b. 1797)
• 1893 » George C. Magoun, American businessman (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Upendrakishore Ray, Indian painter and composer (b. 1863)
• 1916 » Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Lucien Petit-Breton, French-Argentinian cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1919 » Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1835)
• 1920 » Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)
• 1921 » Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852)
• 1927 » Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1929 » Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France (b. 1838)

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. Hendrikus
15. Arie
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.
• 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.
• September 11 » The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
• October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
• November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
• November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
• December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.

The temperature on December 20, 1905 was between 1.8 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.