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• Adriana Catharina Kraan, Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1911)
• Alida Margaretha van VELZEN, Rotterdam
• Adriana Everdina Geijlswijk, Amsterdam
• Aaltje van der Velde, Voorst,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Jägers, Heerlen, Limburg, Niederlande († 1982)
• Adrianus Cornelis Caris, Dommelen
• Angelina PEETERS, Oelegem, Ranst, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1985)
• Beddinkhaus, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1910)
• Aaltje van den Brink, Putten († 1997)
• Aleida Johanna van der Hoeven, Voorschoten

• Alida Geertruida van der Schoot (80), Rotterdam
• Antonius Tinnenbroek (43), Boxtel, Nederland
• Hoek (0), Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Tiemens Post (79), Stedum
• Aaltje Haan (68), Garnwerd, gem. Ezinge, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Ritmeijer (90), Maurik, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna (Tiemens) Post (79), Stedum
• Anneke Rozenboom (59), Maarsseveen
• Anna Maria van Vuuren (65), `s-Heeraartsberg / Bergambacht, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Verheijen (0), Arnhem Gld. NL

• 1907 » Gordon Douglas, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1907 » Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and the Cathedral of Brasília († 2012)
• 1908 » Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk, scholar, and author († 2005)
• 1909 » Eliza Atkins Gleason, African American librarian († 2009)
• 1909 » Sattar Bahlulzade, Azerbaijani-Russian painter († 1974)
• 1910 » John Hammond, American record producer and critic († 1987)
• 1911 » Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and illustrator († 1991)
• 1911 » Stan Kenton, American pianist and composer († 1979)
• 1913 » Muriel Rukeyser, American poet, academic, and activist († 1980)
• 1913 » Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and businessman († 2001)

• 1855 » Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)
• 1878 » Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)
• 1943 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
• 1944 » Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• 1947 » Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
• 1958 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)

• 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 5.9 million citizens.
• May 6 » George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
• June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
• June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
• October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
• November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
• November 21 » Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).

The temperature on December 15, 1910 was between 6.1 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 10.3 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.