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• Aart Hendrik Ellens († 1988)
• Ane Hilbrands Hofstra, Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Alijda Catharina Smit, Elburg († 1991)
• Alida Marina Doorduin, Naaldwijk
• Allen Lamar (Buster) Barnett, Cass County, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1939)
• * Hans Leo Wouters, Schotmar († 1979)
• Alberdina Johanna Holland, Vriezenveen
• "François Henri" Maxime Marie Pourroy de Laubérivière de Quinsonas, Paris († 1944)
• Alberdina Welink, Hooge-Hexel (Wierden)
• Achiel Leopold Callant, Westkapelle († 2001)

• Antje van den Berg (59), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Alberts (71), De Krim, Gramsbergen, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Antonie Riebeek (69), Uithoorn
• Adriana van Rijs (60), Hazerswoude
• Bernardina Maria Johanna Löbler (91), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Rijs (60), Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Jans van Rijs (60), Hazerswoude
• Angela CRAVOTTA (0), VILLAROSA, Enna, Sicilia, Italia
• Aaltje de Boer (71), Surhuizum
• Albert van Dissel (40), Soerabaja

• 1910 » Larry Siemering, American football player and coach († 2009)
• 1911 » Joe Medwick, American baseball player and manager († 1975)
• 1911 » Kirby Grant, American actor († 1985)
• 1912 » Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher and academic († 1993)
• 1912 » Charles Schneeman, American soldier and illustrator († 1972)
• 1912 » Garson Kanin, American director and screenwriter († 1999)
• 1912 » Joan Sanderson, English actress († 1992)
• 1912 » Teddy Wilson, American pianist and educator († 1986)
• 1913 » Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress († 2005)
• 1913 » Howard Duff, American actor, director, and producer († 1990)

• 1885 » Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of Argentina (b. 1837)
• 1890 » August Belmont, German-American banker and politician, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1816)
• 1895 » Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840)
• 1920 » Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (b. 1854)
• 1920 » Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian actor and director (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Erskine Childers, Irish soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Georges Clemenceau, French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1841)
• 1943 » Doris Miller, American soldier and chef, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
• 1948 » Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (b. 1864)

• 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 6.0 million citizens.
• January 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
• May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
• August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
• October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
• December 14 » Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

The temperature on November 24, 1911 was between -0.6 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.