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• aagje STEENBERGEN, strijen († 2010)
• Aart Verhoef, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Nederland
• Albinus Mauritius Adomaris Everaert, Gijzegem (België)
• Antje Taai, Zuidbroek, Groningen, Nederland († 1978)
• adrianus laurentius janus van der westen, breda († 1990)
• Amerigo Alphonse Passaro, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1993)
• Annechien Sijbring, Buinen, Borger, Drenthe, Nederland († 1985)
• Anthonia Johanna van Loenen, Geldermalsen, GLD, Nederland († 1998)
• Alida Jacoba Stephana van Maarseveen, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana BIJKERK, Schiedam

• Anna Manning (0), Musselkanaal gem.Onstwedde
• Anna Maria VERDONCK (76), Turnhout
• Aaltje Wiebusdr. van der Velde (70), Groningen, GR, Nederland
• Barbara Ghequiere (77), Hooglede,8830,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Adrianus Petrus Josephus van Vugt (2), Rotterdam
• Adriana Petronella van der Rande (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Petrus Josephus van Vugt (2), Rotterdam
• Augustinus Daems (77), Vorst, België
• Alida Maria Decloedt (18), Zarren
• Anna Maria Schepers (87), Roosendaal, Nederland

• 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)
• 1912 » Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila († 1962)
• 1913 » Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist († 1958)
• 1914 » Richard Widmark, American actor († 2008)

• 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)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Jacob
11. Adrianus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Arie
15. Antonius
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
• January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
• July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
• August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
• December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The temperature on December 26, 1909 was between 1.3 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.