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• * Johanna Coensen, Vlijmen († 1999)
• Agatha van Everdingen, Vlaardingen († 2000)
• Anna Reijkers, Tilburg († 1989)
• Anna Verschut, amsterdam, Nederland
• Adrianus Casper Marie Antonius Godfroij, Rotterdam († 1912)
• Adrianus Verschoor, 's Gravenhage († 1989)
• Anna Catharina Leupe, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Maria Vink, Delft,- († 1913)
• Adrianus Nijgh, Katwijk († 1989)
• Johannes Veltkamp, Amsterdam († 1975)

• Adolph, Maria, Sylvain Van Den Borre (58)
• Christina Margaretha Sophia Holterman (0), Zwolle, Ov, Nederland
• Albert de Roo (36), Gerthe, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Adriana Maria van den Biggelaar (0), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Bertha Bos (27)
• Cornelis Blom (0), Breda
• Aaltje van der Horst (22), Zwolle
• Adriana van Nistelrooij (67), Geffen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Theresia Waeghe (21), Knokke
• Cornelia Waardenburg (81), Oud-Beijerland ZH NL

• 1909 » Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American captain, actor, and producer († 2000)
• 1911 » Broderick Crawford, American actor († 1986)
• 1911 » Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese colonel and businessman († 2007)
• 1912 » Jim Turnesa, American golfer († 1971)
• 1912 » Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1994)
• 1914 » Frances Reid, American actress († 2010)
• 1914 » Ljubica Sokić, Serbian painter and illustrator († 2009)
• 1914 » Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant († 1996)
• 1915 » Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-Austrian soprano and actress († 2006)
• 1915 » Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author († 2000)

• 1887 » Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese religious leader
• 1906 » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)

• 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.
• April 6 » During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
• May 9 » The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
• June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
• June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
• September 29 » Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 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 December 9, 1911 was between 0.7 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.