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• Albertina Ytje van der Sloot, 's-Gravenhage (Z.H.) († 1958)
• Albertje Lutjeboer, Nieuw-Weerdinge, Emmen
• * Jacomina Catharina Bouw, Vinkeveen († 1981)
• Anna Johanna Willemsen, Renkum
• Alice Elisabeth Amalia Anna van La Rochefoucauld, Parijs († 1980)
• Aaltje Wever, Mussel († 1998)
• Adriaan Bouwense, Colijnsplaat († 1987)
• "Anne" Alice Elisabeth Amélie de La Rochefoucauld, Paris († 1980)
• Anna Laverge, Rotterdam († 1985)
• Adrianus Leonardus Wuijts, Westerhoven (gemeente Bergeijk)

• Albertus, Johannes, Jacobus Seidel (39), Velp, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abraham Lambertus Souhoka (32), Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Aaltje Tammens (66), Zutphen
• Adriana (Johanna) van GEEL (97), WOUW, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van Geel (97), Wouw
• Anna Maria Dekkers (0), Best
• Adriana van Driel (66), Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Catharina Buysrogge (78), Antwerpen
• "Anatole" Auguste Dagoret de François de Boisgisson (76), Bourges, Cher, France
• Antonia Derksen (79), Huisen

• 1899 » Glen Kidston, English race car driver and pilot († 1931)
• 1900 » William Ifor Jones, Welsh organist and conductor († 1988)
• 1901 » Arthur Wirtz, American businessman († 1983)
• 1903 » Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian lawyer and politician, 16th Minister of National Education of Colombia († 1948)
• 1905 » Erich Borchmeyer, German sprinter († 2000)
• 1907 » Dan Duryea, American actor and singer († 1968)
• 1907 » Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1910 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer († 1953)
• 1912 » Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director and manager († 2009)
• 1913 » Jean-Michel Atlan, Algerian-French painter († 1960)

• 1875 » Charles Kingsley English priest and author (b. 1819)
• 1883 » Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
• 1893 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
• 1921 » Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855)
• 1922 » René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)
• 1923 » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 1931 » Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina (b. 1881)
• 1937 » Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (b. 1876)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacob
12. Dirk
13. Hendrikus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Margaretha
16. Jantje

• 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 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.
• February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
• June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
• June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
• September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
• September 24 » Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation.
• December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

The temperature on January 23, 1906 was between -5.6 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged -2.8 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.