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• Antonia Catherina van Batenburg, Den Haag, Nederland († 1987)
• Adrianus Antonius van den Oever, Bokhoven, Nederland
• Agnes Lilian Beynon, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, UK († 2005)
• Andreas Clemens Maas, Hulsel, Reusel-De Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1995)
• Angenieta Catharina Kasius, Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Kyle Dobbins, Limestone, Washington, Tennessee, United States († 1977)
• Aalbert Groeneveld, Kootwijk, gem. Barneveld († 2010)
• Adrianus Antonius van den Oever, Bokhoven († 2000)
• Anton Steenbergen, Leiden
• Alida Maria Kramer, Graft († 2001)

• Antonius Pistorius (74), Dongen
• Arina Betist (86), Rotterdam
• Agatha Gerarda Jacoba Jacobsen (21), Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Stam, Nw-Lekkerland
• Auguste Wilhelmine Marie Landgraf (9), Sennewitz, Saalkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• Anna Maria Steinbusch (0), Simpelveld
• Barbara Maria MEYNEN (34), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Anna Maria Wolf (32), Oss
• Andries Barents (81), Venray, Nederland
• Adhémar BATON (36), Dour, Belgique

• 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)

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

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

• 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 2 » The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
• August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
• August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
• August 23 » World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
• August 24 » World War I: German troops capture Namur.
• September 16 » World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.

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.