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• Annette Schipper
• Antonius Neelen, Fijnaart en Heijningen, NB, Nederland
• Adriana Maria de Wit, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Andreas Antonius Johannes Mutsaers, Tilburg († 1945)
• Anna Vis, Ter Aar (Korteraar)
• Albert Haas, Hengelo († 2006)
• Albertus Marinus Johannes Pardoel, Wamel
• adriaan johan jansen, heenvliet († 1986)
• Antoinette Veenhof, Maastricht (Limburg)
• van der Meer, Aalsmeer, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1984)

• Andreas van de Pol (54), Tilburg
• Aart Aartsen Visch (81), Epe
• Ariaantje (Adriana) Blokland (73), Utrecht
• Ariaantje Blokland (73), Utrecht
• Albert Berends Hassinck (80), Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland
• Agnes Anna Mooijman (2), Noordwijkerhout
• Cornelia van der Zande (82), Bruinisse
• Alfred LOEWEL (62)
• Antonetta maria Klaassen (30), Wouw
• Anna Zdunek (1), Kosc Parafialny Pruszyn

• 1910 » Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer († 2004)
• 1911 » Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman († 1999)
• 1911 » Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager († 1984)
• 1912 » Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center († 1986)
• 1913 » Mary Martin, American actress and singer († 1990)
• 1916 » Wan Li, Chinese educator and politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China († 2015)
• 1917 » Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager († 2011)
• 1917 » Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor († 1995)
• 1920 » Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, Japanese priest, 1st Bishop of Naha († 2014)
• 1921 » Vernon McGarity, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient († 2013)

• 1884 » William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
• 1913 » Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (b. 1864)
• 1914 » Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
• 1916 » Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
• 1933 » Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
• 1934 » Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (b. 1886)
• 1935 » Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)

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. Catharina
9. Adriana
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.
• June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
• August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
• August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
• November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
• November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
• November 15 » Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.

The temperature on December 1, 1914 was between 7.9 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.