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• Alberdina Antoinetta Maria Willems, Den Haag († 1986)
• Agatha Johanna (Agaat) van Schagen, Haarlemmermeer († 1971)
• ? ? († 1980)
• Albert Brouwer, Hengelo († 1954)
• Adriana Leenderts Kleinendorst, Rotterdam
• Adriana Kleinendorst, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• VAN 'T VEER, Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1905)
• Ale Voetstra († 2005)
• Klijn, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus de Laat, Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1982)

• Adriana Ris (86), Schiedam
• ? van den Akker (31), Leiden, Gemeente Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Angenis Reiniera Beumer (79), Epe
• Aleida Geertruida Brugman (1), Hatert/GL
• Aleida Geertruida BRUGMAN (0), Nijmegen
• Adrianus Marinus van den Boom (0), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Aaltje Slopsema (35), Groningen
• Angenis Reiniera Beumer 9 (79), Epe
• Albertus Roelofs Posthumus (0), Assen
• VAN 'T VEER (0), Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1900 » Evelyn Bark, leading member of the British Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG († 1993)
• 1901 » Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author († 1941)
• 1902 » Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter and sculptor († 1980)
• 1903 » Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor († 1995)
• 1904 » Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author († 1980)
• 1905 » William Loeb III, American publisher († 1981)
• 1907 » Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician († 1998)
• 1908 » Ralph Hill, American runner († 1994)
• 1909 » Matt Gordy, American pole vaulter († 1989)
• 1910 » Imperio Argentina, Argentine-Spanish actress and singer († 2003)

• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)

• 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.
• August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
• September 8 » The 7.2 M_w  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
• October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
• 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.
• December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

The temperature on December 26, 1905 was between -2.3 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.