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• Adrianus Johannes Martinus van Riel, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1920)
• Adriana Maria van den Bos, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland († 1992)
• Adrianus Gregorius Govers, Ginneken en Bavel
• Aaltje van der Berg, Garijp
• Angela BOENS, Snaaskerke († 2005)
• Adrianus Raats, Halsteren, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1912)
• de Pooter, Axel, Zeeland, Nederland, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Wielage, Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1993)
• * Leonardus Adrianus van Zon, Ammerzoden († 1976)
• Adrianus Mertens, Halsteren, N-Br, NL († 1984)

• Antonia Hendrika Donck (40), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Agnes van Montfoort (1), Vreeswijk (Utrecht)
• Antje Boos, Zutphen
• Albert Gebben (72)
• Arthur Florimond Alphons Meij (19), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Johans Koolstra (0), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Lakerveld (32), Meerkerk
• Adelheid van Hünecken (94), Berlijn
• Catharina van der Starre (0), Rotterdam
• Antonia Nuijens (7), Limmen

• 1906 » Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor († 1994)
• 1906 » Russell C. Newhouse, American pilot and engineer († 1998)
• 1908 » Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1980)
• 1910 » Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American educator and author († 1999)
• 1910 » Sy Oliver, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player († 1988)
• 1912 » Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, English captain and politician, Lord President of the Council († 2012)
• 1913 » Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins († 1967)
• 1914 » Fernando Alonso, Cuban ballet dancer, co-founded the Cuban National Ballet († 2013)
• 1914 » Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer († 2005)
• 1916 » Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet († 2000)

• 1904 » William Shiels, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Victoria (b. 1848)
• 1907 » William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
• 1917 » Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836)
• 1927 » Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)
• 1928 » Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861)
• 1929 » Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1930 » Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867)
• 1933 » 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)

• 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 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
• March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
• April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
• June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
• September 24 » His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
• November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.

The temperature on December 17, 1911 was between 5.4 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.