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• Albertus Gerardus Blokhuis, Lattrop († 1940)
• Aaltje Rens, St Maarten, Netherlands († 2000)
• Andreas Jacobus de Rijck, Ossendrecht, Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alonzo James († 1993)
• Adriaan Boel, Stompwijk
• Adele Johanna Siebers, Materborn († 1997)
• Agnes Wilhelmina Maria Bakker, Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Alida Maria Laan, Westwoud, Drechterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• (Stillborn) MARTINI, Uithuizen Groningen Netherlands († 1911)
• Alexander Cornelis Bor, Echteld

• Antje Claasdr van der Meulen (70), Noordwijk
• (0), Zeist, UT, Nederland
• Aaltje Tabak (78), Markluiden (Heerde)
• Adriana van der Meer (64), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Thedinga (42), Slochteren, Nederland
• Abraham Meeuwig (74), Haarlem
• Adriana Wilhelmina de Rooij (0), Sint Philipsland
• Arie Leeuw (76), Den Helder
• Adriana Wilhelmina de Rooij (0), Sint-Philipsland
• Arie Koolmees (2), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1909 » Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer († 1990)
• 1910 » Ambrosio Padilla, Filipino basketball player and politician († 1996)
• 1910 » Dan Blocker, American television actor, played Eric "Hoss" Cartwright on Bonanza († 1972)
• 1911 » Chet Huntley, American journalist († 1974)
• 1912 » Philip Hart, American lawyer and politician, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan († 1976)
• 1912 » René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician († 1990)
• 1913 » Harry Locke, English actor († 1987)
• 1913 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1996)
• 1913 » Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American composer († 1988)
• 1913 » Ray Nance, American trumpeter, violinist, and singer († 1976)

• 1896 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 » Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)
• 1911 » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
• 1917 » Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
• 1920 » Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)
• 1922 » Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist and author (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845)
• 1928 » Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and painter (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (b. 1898)
• 1932 » Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1857)

• 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.
• January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
• April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
• 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 14 » United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
• October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.

The temperature on December 10, 1911 was between 0.5 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.