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• Albertina Maria Adriana Wouterlood, 's Gravenhage
• Adriana Maria de Wit, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Anna Leonia Josephina Froyen, Alken, België
• Andreas Antonius Johannes Mutsaers, Tilburg († 1945)
• Alexander Muller, Rotterdam,Rotterdam,Zuid Holland,Nederland († 1943)
• André Cesario Constantino, Orleans, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Adrianus van Duijnhoven, Erp († 1984)
• Alphonsus Antonius Petrus van Iersel, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1988)
• Annetje Wijnberger, Veenendaal († 1949)
• Andries Jonkman, Putten

• Anthonie Ravenhorst (36), Driebergen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Abraham Hutter (51), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Rooijakkers (63), Valkenswaard
• Arie van der Giessen (76), Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred LOEWEL (62)
• Ariaantje (Adriana) Blokland (73), Utrecht
• Anna Zdunek (1), Kosc Parafialny Pruszyn
• Abraham Abrahamsz. van den Boogaart (47), Delft
• Aart Aartsen Visch (81), Epe
• Aart Visch (81), (GL) Epe

• 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)

• 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.
• May 29 » The Ocean liner RMSEmpress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
• August 2 » The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
• August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
• September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
• 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.

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.