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• Alida van Zwieten, Den Haag († 1988)
• Anna Houtzager, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alie Koppel († 1978)
• Adriana Hoven van den, Drunen († 1967)
• Anna Gerada Bulterman, Arnhem, Nederland
• Aaltje Merkus, Hochlar (D)
• Adrianus Barten, Randwijk (GL) († 1969)
• Adriana van den Hoven, Drunen († 1967)
• van der Boor, Dordrecht († 1912)
• Adrianus Barten, Randwijk, Overbetuwe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1969)

• Anna Maria Theresia Margaretha Feldbrugge (28), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertus Engelbart (64), Alphen (West Maas en Waal), NL
• (Angeline) Elizabeth Van De Wege (71), Nebraska, United States
• Alexandrina Cornelia Cornelis Corver (83), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Lammerts Woudsma (47), Noordwolde, Friesland, Nederland
• van der Boor (0), Dordrecht
• Barbara Roecker Schwager (69), Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Berend van Eerden (1), Groningen
• Baukje Rienks Boxum (66), Huizum
• Alice DYKES (22), Dothan, Huston County, Alabama, Verenigde Staten

• 1907 » Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete († 1969)
• 1908 » George Dolenz, Italian-American actor († 1963)
• 1909 » Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-American sculptor, painter, and photographer († 1995)
• 1909 » Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician and computer scientist († 1994)
• 1910 » Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and journalist († 1949)
• 1911 » Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1914 » George Reeves, American actor and director († 1959)
• 1914 » Nicolas de Staël, Russian-French painter and illustrator († 1955)
• 1915 » Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian geographer and cartographer († 2004)
• 1917 » Francis L. Kellogg, American businessman and diplomat († 2006)

• 1883 » Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)
• 1933 » Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896)

• 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 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
• April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
• April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
• September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
• October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
• October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.

The temperature on January 5, 1912 was between 3.8 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 18.9 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.