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• Aleida Jebbina Titia BOEKHOLD, Leens, Groningen, Nederland
• Alfred Frederik Frans Otto Hugo Amelung van Sponheim Graaf van Ortenburg, Berlijn († 1973)
• Boon, Ophemert (GL) († 1906)
• Abraham den Exter, Hofstade, België († 1991)
• Albertha Catharina Nijenhuis, Steenwijk
• Adriana Hendrika van Bockel, Kerkdriel, Maasdriel, Gelderland, Nederland († 2000)
• Alberto Grube († 1941)
• Addison Byron Owen RANDALL († 1945)
• Aaltje Maria Wouters, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1979)
• Adriana Hardonk, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Anna Catharina Mennigman* (67), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Aaltjes Tadema (76), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Arien Tekes Ket (88), Niekerk, gem. Ulrum, Groningen, Nederland
• Alice MANNON (21), Aledo, Mercer, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus BAAS (41), Stolwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Ansems (80), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Albert de Graaff (0), Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• Arnold Vanandroye (0), Zepperen, België
• Anna Lek (60), Lisse
• Aleida Van Londen (78), Kilder, Montferland, NL

• 1903 » Faith Bennett, British actress and ATA pilot during WWII († 1969)
• 1903 » Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor († 1991)
• 1905 » Édouard Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and politician, Postmaster General of Canada († 1994)
• 1907 » Katharine Hepburn, American actress († 2003)
• 1907 » Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1908 » Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-English economist († 1986)
• 1910 » Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1910 » Gordon Jenkins, American pianist and composer († 1984)
• 1910 » James Dudley, American baseball player, wrestling manager and executive († 2004)
• 1910 » Johan Ferrier, Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of Suriname († 2010)

• 1876 » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
• 1878 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1884 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
• 1916 » James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1874)
• 1931 » Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Arthur Quiller-Couch, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1863)
• 1944 » Max Brand, American journalist and author (b. 1892)

• 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.
• March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
• March 15 » Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
• September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
• 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 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
• December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

The temperature on May 12, 1906 was between 6.9 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.