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• Anthonia Maria Siteur, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida Otto, Ouder-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1974)
• * Dirk Veth, Papendrecht († 2000)
• Anthonia Maria Siteur, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anna Cornelia Maria van Hooijdonk, Hoeven († 1965)
• van der Valk, Hof van Delft († 1908)
• Alida Johanna Francisca Sallé, Amsterdam
• Albert Georges De Layen, Sains en Gohelle, 62114, France († 1985)
• Abraham Johannes Brouwer, Haarlemmermeer († 1984)
• Agnès Angèle Yvonne VANPEE, Dunkerque... Hauts de France († 1988)

• Antonie Mathijs Maas (64), Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Atje Van der Schaaf (0), Assen,, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arij van Marion (78), Nieuw Helvoet
• Aaltje Smit (76), Winschoten (gem. Oldambt)
• Ambrosius Vanlerberghe (59), Merkem, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Alphonsus Josephus Marie Ebbinkhuijsen (36), Arnhem
• Anna Cornelia Adams (64), Tilburg, Nbr.NL
• Antonius Johannes Pelgrim (31), Wormen
• Abraham Moolenaar (67), Rotterdam
• Albert Overmars (75), Deventer, Overijssel, The Netherlands

• 1902 » Prince George, Duke of Kent († 1942)
• 1902 » Sidney Hook, American philosopher and author († 1989)
• 1904 » Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1984)
• 1904 » Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author († 1977)
• 1905 » Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster († 1992)
• 1907 » Paul Francis Webster, American soldier and songwriter († 1984)
• 1908 » Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer († 1994)
• 1909 » Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician († 2000)
• 1911 » Hortense Calisher, American author († 2009)
• 1914 » Harry F. Byrd Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician († 2013)

• 1893 » George C. Magoun, American businessman (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Upendrakishore Ray, Indian painter and composer (b. 1863)
• 1916 » Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Lucien Petit-Breton, French-Argentinian cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1919 » Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1835)
• 1920 » Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)
• 1921 » Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852)
• 1927 » Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1929 » Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France (b. 1838)
• 1935 » Martin O'Meara, Irish-Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1882)

• 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.
• January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
• April 8 » H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
• May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
• July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
• August 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.

The temperature on December 20, 1908 was between -1.6 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.