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• Freding, Straumen, Bodin, Bodø, Nordland, Norway († 1993)
• Ambrose Garrett Owens, North Carolina († 1988)
• Anna Maria Petronella de Swart, Gilze en Rijen († 2002)
• Kuik, Bronger Borger, Drenthe, Nederland († 1913)
• Albert Elmer Morley
• Adrianus Petrus Lambertus Doorenbosch, 's Hertogenbosch († 1989)
• Zorn, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1913)
• Andries van der Most, Rotterdam
• * Karel Pennings, Bakel en Milheeze († 1962)
• Adriana Cornelia Costeris, Alphen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Amalie de Vries (67), Rotterdam
• Angelina Luise 'Lena' Rademaker (34)
• Aartje Rietveld (36), Lekkerkerk
• Aldert Nobel (70), Winkel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus van Nieuwamerongen (0), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anna Adriana Stok (8), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Rus (0), Winsum
• Anne Otzes Hoogeveen (50), Ureterp
• Anje Klaassens (0), Zevenhuizen
• Benjamins (0), Zuidwolde, Drenthe, The Netherlands

• 1910 » Abe Burrows, American author, playwright, and director († 1985)
• 1910 » Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and umpire († 2010)
• 1911 » Jules Dassin, American-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1912 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general and pilot († 2002)
• 1913 » Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1913 » Ray Meyer, American basketball player and coach († 2006)
• 1913 » Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1916 » Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer († 1973)
• 1916 » Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American trade union leader and academic († 2008)
• 1917 » Ossie Davis, American actor and activist († 2005)

• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 » Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)
• 1936 » Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
• 1939 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1897)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Antonius
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
• February 9 » A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
• March 18 » King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
• July 12 » Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
• July 31 » The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
• October 9 » The steamship SSVolturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
• December 24 » The Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan results in the deaths of 73 Christmas party participants (including 59 children) when someone falsely yells "fire".

The temperature on December 18, 1913 was between -1.8 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.