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• Alexandre dos Santos Pedroso
• Adriaan Deurloo, Tholen gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED († 1998)
• Alida, Christina, Elisabeth Sneiders, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Adriana de Ronde, Schiedam
• Adrianus Johannes den Hollander, de Werken, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Adrianus Brederoo, Naaldwijk († 1988)
• Albertus Fleskens, Aarle-Rixtel, Nederland († 1950)
• Aartje Jannetje van de Meent, Zeist († 2006)
• Adrianus Johannes Ooms, Zutphen
• André Van Iseghem, Pittem, België († 1933)

• Anna Maria Balen ✓ (73), Rotterdam
• Adrianus van Helvoirt (47), Boekel, Netherlands
• Adriana Maria Cas (80), Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Eduardus WILS (0), Ossendrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Blind (84), Amsterdam
• (82), Beilen
• Abraham Allegro (4), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anton Petrus Lodewijk van Lede (66), Brussel,,Brussels Capital Region,Belgique
• Aaltje Fokes Brals (75), Hellendoorn
• Arie Voogd (32), Oegstgeest

• 1908 » Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist († 1958)
• 1908 » Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Brazilian historian and activist († 1995)
• 1908 » Van Heflin, American actor († 1971)
• 1911 » Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter († 1972)
• 1911 » Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)
• 1912 » Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player († 1989)
• 1913 » Arnold Brown, English-Canadian missionary, 11th General of The Salvation Army († 2002)
• 1914 » Alan Bullock, English historian and author († 2004)
• 1914 » Larry Noble, English comedian and actor († 1993)
• 1915 » B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa († 1983)

• 1893 » Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (b. 1816)
• 1895 » Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800)
• 1908 » Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)
• 1919 » Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850)
• 1922 » Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter and photographer (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
• 1924 » Samuel Gompers, English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor (b. 1850)
• 1927 » Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1931 » Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist (b. 1840)

• 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.
• February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
• April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
• April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
• September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
• September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
• December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

The temperature on December 13, 1912 was between 3.3 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.