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• Amelia Colletta Maria Boom, Dinteloord, Nederland
• Alphonsius Gerardus (Fun) HERMANS, Weert († 1979)
• Albert John de Bruin, Mahaska County, Iowa († 1995)
• Aletta Adriana Keijnemans, Nederhemert († 1989)
• Anna Elisabeth ZWAGA, Steenwijkerwold Overijssel Netherlands
• Albert Tel, Zevenhuizen (Leek) († 1946)
• Aldegonda Petronella Maria van der Velden, Beesel, Limburg, Nederland († 1986)
• Adriana Jacoba Bieler, 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Maria OOSTVEEN, van, Utrecht,Utrecht,NEDERLAND,Nederland
• Adrianus Verdel, Oudewater († 1909)

• Adolphus John Osborn (0), Landsborough, Victoria, Australia
• Amanda Snider (63), Washington Cnty, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Broothaers (28), Londerzeel
• Aaltje Wolters (74), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albertus Hendrikus Nas (50), Didam
• Anna (Maria) Catharina Verboven (67), Grobbendonk, Antwerpen, BelgiÁe
• Antonie Veen (56), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Aartje STRUIJK (86), Ammerzoden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje WOLTERS (74), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Ariaantje Voogt (80), Hoogvliet

• 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)
• 1911 » Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer († 2000)
• 1912 » Kate Simon, American travel writer († 1990)
• 1912 » Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player († 1965)

• 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)
• 1942 » Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
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. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
• April 1 » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
• May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
• October 1 » Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
• October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

The temperature on December 5, 1908 was between -0.4 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.