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• Akke Maria Buter, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1992)
• Rinskje Tol, Kooten († 1975)
• Annechien Oosterhuis, Oude Pekela
• Albert Pieter Reinier Waaijerink, Den Helder
• Aagje du Clou, Zegwaart
• Antje Sikkes van der Veen, Kortehemmen
• Antonius Klunder, Deventer
• Anna Femia Ketel, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1986)
• Antonie Johannes Jans, 's Gravenhage († 1955)
• , Texel († 1992)

• Albertus Johannes Janssen (0), Angeren
• Annigjen van Urk (82), Ruinen
• Annigje van Urk (82), Ruinen, de Wolden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antonie van der Steen (67), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Angelique Pharaïlde Leonie de Blieck (37), Sinaai, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Aaltje Jans Nieboer (78), Meeden,Gemeente Menterwolde,Groningen,Nederland
• Adriana Westerhoven (77), Alkemade
• Adriaan Van der Tuin (0), Zutphen
• Anna Maria Gloudemans (66), Hedel
• Adelgunde Heuvens (1), Kevelaer

• 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)
• 1910 » Abraham Polonsky, American director and screenwriter († 1999)

• 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)

• 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.
• June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
• September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
• September 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
• September 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
• November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
• November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.

The temperature on December 5, 1906 was between 2.0 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.