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• Albertus Sok, Batavia (Indonesië)
• Aaltje Westerdijk, Oudeschip, Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Aleida Gerritdina Krake, Hengelo
• Anna Maria Hubertina Francot, Stevensweert († 1907)
• Albertus Sok, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aldagonda Kurstjens, Putbroek, Netherlands († 1997)
• Adriaan Smit, Eenrum
• Adriaan Fens, Oosterhout († 1907)
• Aagje Maria van der Gaag, Overschie († 1930)
• Aaltje Kluitenberg, Steenwijksmoer, Coevorden

• Adrianus van Beelen (1)
• Andriesje KOENEN (37), Steenwijk, Nederland
• Aartje van Roekel (53), Ederveen (Ede)
• Agnes Crooks Fisher (60)
• Anna Maria Marianna Hendriksen (0), Silvolde, Oude Ijsselstreek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Kooman (65), Yerseke
• Betje van de Munt (58), Oldebroek
• Anna Maria Geertrui Baak (81), Leiden
• Albert Angell (65), SLC, SL, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus van der Heijden (26), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1898 » Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba († 1977)
• 1900 » Karna Maria Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker († 1987)
• 1901 » Ilona Fehér, Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator († 1988)
• 1903 » Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet economic planner, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union († 1950)
• 1905 » Alex Wilson, Canadian sprinter and coach († 1994)
• 1910 » Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer († 2004)
• 1911 » Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman († 1999)
• 1911 » Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager († 1984)
• 1912 » Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center († 1986)
• 1913 » Mary Martin, American actress and singer († 1990)

• 1884 » William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
• 1913 » Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (b. 1864)
• 1914 » Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
• 1916 » Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
• 1933 » Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
• 1934 » Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (b. 1886)
• 1935 » Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
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 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
• March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
• April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
• September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
• December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).
• December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

The temperature on December 1, 1906 was between 0.4 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.