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• Aaltje Bouw, Ede († 2000)
• Aaltje Tonia Peul, Zutphen († 1967)
• Adriana Helena van der Weide, Boxtel († 1987)
• Alphonsus Snelders, Oorderen († 1977)
• Aleida Jacoba Sewalt, Swalmen († 1915)
• (Lieselotte) Elisabeth Charlotte Niehoff, Gronau, Noordrijn-Westfalen, Duitsland († 2002)
• Adriaan Antonius Hendriks, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL († 1980)
• CAPITEIN, Rotterdam
• Anna Elisabeth ROdenburg, unbekannt († 1990)
• Adriaan J.C. Daniels, Alphen en Riel († 1940)

• Anthonia Hendrika Kuijer (45), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Zuijdgeest (61), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Jannes Beute (32), Zevenhuizen
• de Wit (0), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonetta Christina Albertina Brugman (89), Hilversum
• Adriana Dourleijn (73), Meliskerke (Veere)
• Albertus BEUTE (32), Zevenhuizen (Leek) Groningen Netherlands
• Antje Claassen Friesenborg (76), Aurich, Ostfriesland, Germany
• Aebele Bienses Wybenga (80), Zwaagwesteinde, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• August Depicker (69), Zarren

• 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)

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.
• February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
• July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
• August 24 » World War I: German troops capture Namur.
• August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
• November 1 » World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
• December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.

The temperature on December 5, 1914 was between 2.9 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.