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• Anna Johannes Schoonus, Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Beemt († 1984)
• Angela Christine Rose MONTAGU DOUGLAS SCOTT, Dalkeith House Scotland († 2000)
• Angela Montagu-Douglas-Scott († 2000)
• Stokkermans, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfons Hector De Wolf, Moorsel († 1960)
• Anna Angela Sulmann OR Suelmann, Schoonebeek († 1981)
• Anna Eliza COERTJENS, Schilde, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1979)
• Adriaan de Visser, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1945)
• Anna Maria Agnes Aendekerk, Gruitrode, Provincie Limburg, België († 1907)

• Anna, Maria, Josephina Holdorp (0), Maastricht,Netherlands
• Anna Maria Josephina Holdorp (0), Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Bruijel, Westendorp
• Adriana Johanna Kerstens (66), Zevenbergen
• Sturm (0), Aagtekerke
• Albertje Alberts Strijker (10), Zwolle
• Anna Gesina Wessels (0), Altharen, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Adriana Groen (76), Rotterdam
• Anna Helena Möller Müller (22), Emmercompascum (Holland)
• (14), Nieuwpoort, België

• 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)
• 1910 » Marguerite Churchill, American actress († 2000)

• 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 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 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
• February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
• March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
• September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
• September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
• December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

The temperature on December 26, 1906 was between -4.7 °C and -0.8 °C and averaged -4.1 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.