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• Agatha Wulfraat, Jombang, East Java, Indonesië († 2000)
• Andreas Wilhelmus Hurkx, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus van het Hekke, Brummen († 1913)
• Aleida Hendrika Jonker, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Oudman, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1989)
• Andreas Josephus Jacobus Gubbels, Heythuyzen († 1992)
• Andrée Marie Joseph Ghislain CHOPPINET, Enghien, 7850, Hainaut, Belgique († 1916)
• Anna Barbara Stassen, Borgharen, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adriaan Meerman, Arnemuiden († 1945)
• Anna Catharina van de Weijer, Riethoven († 2001)

• Anna Maria Heijmans, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Uiterwijk-Winkel (75), Stuifzand
• Verwaal (0), Ede
• Amanda Record (55), Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten
• Amanda Luella Record (55), Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States
• Arie van der Ende (87), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmus van Erp (0), Berghem (Nbr), Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anton Karl Simon von Wolkenstein-Trostburg (81), Grigno, Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
• Arij van den Ende (87), De Lier, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje van Gorkom, Zegveld

• 1910 » Abraham Polonsky, American director and screenwriter († 1999)
• 1911 » Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer († 2000)
• 1912 » Kate Simon, American travel writer († 1990)
• 1912 » Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player († 1965)
• 1913 » Esther Borja, Cuban soprano and actress († 2013)
• 1914 » Hans Hellmut Kirst, German lieutenant and author († 1989)
• 1916 » Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist and immunologist, created the world's first effective live polio vaccine († 2013)
• 1916 » Walt McPherson, American basketball player and coach († 2013)
• 1917 » Ken Downing, English race car driver († 2004)
• 1918 » Charity Adams Earley, Black American Army officer († 2002)

• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)
• 1942 » Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883)

• 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 19 » Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
• March 26 » First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
• June 23 » Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
• July 12 » Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
• September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
• December 1 » Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.

The temperature on December 5, 1913 was between 0.1 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 11.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.