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• Annie Buseman, Clinton, Rock County, Minnesota
• Antonia Catharina VAN BATENBURG († 1987)
• Alida Jacoba de Jonge, Middelburg († 1914)
• Anje Oosterhuis, Ellersinghuizen (Vlagtwedde) († 2004)
• Alida Jacoba de Jonge, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1914)
• nn van der ploeg, Groningen († 1914)
• Adrianus Antonius van den Oever, Bokhoven, Nederland
• Albert George DINEEN, Richmond, Victoria, Australia († 1942)
• Alberdina Hulsinga, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2002)
• Anne Smit, Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland

• Arina Betist (86), Rotterdam
• Adrianus van den Broek (94), Zeeland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaron James Gaskins (71), Clinton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Arina Betist (86), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Stroijckens (77), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annechien Munneke (0), Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Barbara Maria MEYNEN (34), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Antonia Maria Cornelissen (0), Gilze en Rijen
• Andries van de Veen (0), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Aarnout Stroosnijder (70), Bussum

• 1908 » Nelson S. Bond, American author and playwright († 2006)
• 1909 » Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author († 2000)
• 1912 » George O'Hanlon, American actor and screenwriter († 1989)
• 1914 » Donald Nixon, American businessman († 1987)
• 1914 » Wilson Tucker, American projectionist and author († 2006)
• 1915 » Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot († 2001)
• 1915 » John Dehner, American actor († 1992)
• 1915 » Marc Simont, French-American illustrator († 2013)
• 1916 » Michael Gough, Malaysian-English actor († 2011)
• 1916 » P. K. Page, English-Canadian author and poet († 2010)

• 1890 » William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
• 1899 » Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded White Star Line (b. 1837)
• 1905 » John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist and academic (b. 1828)
• 1910 » Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
• 1927 » Miguel Pro, Mexican priest and martyr (b. 1891)
• 1934 » Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
• 1937 » George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (b. 1858)
• 1937 » Jagadish Chandra Bose, Bangladeshi-Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (b. 1858)
• 1937 » Miklós Kovács, Hungarian-Slovene cantor and poet (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Stanley Argyle, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1867)

• 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 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 6.2 million citizens.
• August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
• September 3 » William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
• September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
• September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
• October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
• November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.

The temperature on November 23, 1914 was between -5.1 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.