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• Aleida Groothedde († 1978)
• Adolphe Leopold De Boom, Erembodegem
• Adrianus Antonius Beerens, Loon op Zand († 1974)
• Anna Plug, Noordwijk
• Andries Lodewijk Van Iterson, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Alberta van Ommen, Gemeente Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1988)
• Botes, Beaufort West, Central Karoo DC, Western Cape, South Africa († 1982)
• Adrianus Antonius Beerens, Loon op Zand († 1974)
• ELLEN
• Aaltje Hulleman, Emmen († 2000)

• Aagje Groen (12), Egmond aan Zee
• Anna Kluitenberg (70), Terwolde
• Benjamin Kettle AKET01.BEN01 (82), Winterton, Norfolk, England
• Anna Maria Boers (45), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Gerardus Schrievers (1), Hatert (Nijmegen)
• van Iterson (0), Geldermalsen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Annigje in 't Veld (in ’t Veldt, In ’t Velt) (86), Strijen, Nederland
• annigje in 't VELD (86), strijen
• Alida Johanna Luijerink (20), Lonneker-Driene
• Johannes van den Berg (56), Benschop

• 1901 » Eliot Porter, American photographer and academic († 1990)
• 1903 » Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and manager († 1946)
• 1904 » Ève Curie, French-American journalist and pianist († 2007)
• 1905 » Elizabeth Yates, American journalist and author († 2001)
• 1907 » John Barkley Rosser Sr., American logician († 1989)
• 1908 » Baby Face Nelson, American gangster († 1934)
• 1908 » Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician († 2000)
• 1908 » Miklós Szabó, Hungarian runner († 2000)
• 1908 » Pierre Graber, Swiss lawyer and politician, 69th President of the Swiss Confederation († 2003)
• 1909 » Rulon Jeffs, American religious leader († 2002)

• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
• 1882 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)
• 1924 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)

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.
• March 23 » Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
• May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
• May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
• 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 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

The temperature on December 6, 1905 was between -0.1 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.