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• Alvira Katherine Barbara Behm, Fremont Center, Lake, Illinois († 1985)
• Ann BARSEMA, Bellwood Cook County Illinois U.S.A († 1988)
• Anganus Jakobs Reen, Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 1994)
• Ann Mary "Annie" Lannigan, Cambridge, PEI, Canada († 1995)
• Anna Hendrika van de Veerdonk, Geffen († 1906)
• Alexandra Wilhelmina Maria Louise Adelheid Harriet Gerda van Platen-Hallermund, Mummendorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern († 1982)
• * Herman Antonius Arnoldus Joosten, Schiedam († 1992)
• Adrianus Theunissen, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1936)
• Adriana van den Heuvel, Gilze en Rijen
• Alice Amy Wenban, Manildra, NSW, AU († 1938)

• Adrianus de Kort (70), Herpt en Bern
• Agatha Braas (3), Avenhorn, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Seijdell (73), Hoogeveen nederland
• ALBERT JANSEN (82), Leusden
• Aalbert Jansen (82), Leusden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia KERKHOFS (75), Kaatsheuvel, 3800, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• aaltje wolf (73), slochteren
• Albert (Jans) Siegers (80), Roderveld (Roden)
• Agatha Johanna Horeweg (0), Overschie
• (Stillborn) Liefers (0), Epe, Nederland

• 1901 » Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company († 1966)
• 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)
• 1907 » Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic († 1993)
• 1907 » Lin Biao, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1971)

• 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. 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.
• January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
• May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
• September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
• October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• 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 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

The temperature on December 5, 1905 was between -1.2 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.