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• Arnolda Gerarda van Nuland, Oss, Nederland († 1916)
• Carol Beth Smith, Fresno County, California, Verenigde Staten († 1996)
• Aaltje Hemminga, Beetsterzwaag († 2000)
• Cornelia Artina van Est († 1998)
• Antje Timmerman, Zevenbergen
• Alke Withoff, Emmer-Erfscheidenveen, Emmen († 1980)
• Antje van Leeuwen, Abbenes, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Cornelia Johanna de Kok, Tilburg († 2011)
• Cornelis Johannes van der Zwan, Den Haag († 1964)
• Alphonse Joseph Abadie († 1993)

• Anna Margaretha Moors (77), Vlodrop, Roerdalen
• Annechien Gerrits (35), Hoogkerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Lapien (1), Oisterwijk
• Aaltje Zaagman (86), Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Amelia Ledoux (64), Elk Point, Union, South Dakota
• Adrianus van Oostwaard (78), Portengen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aaltien Hoving (35), Vries, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna VOORN (89), Barsingerhorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Adema, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aloijsia Gerardine Maria van Luxemburg (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1911 » Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, playwright, and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)
• 1911 » Qian Xuesen, Chinese aerodynamicist and academic († 2009)
• 1911 » Val Guest, English-American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer († 2006)
• 1912 » Carlo Ponti, Italian-Swiss film producer († 2007)
• 1913 » Jean Marais, French actor and director († 1998)
• 1916 » Elena Garro, Mexican author and playwright († 1998)
• 1916 » Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader († 1989)
• 1918 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
• 1918 » Clinton Adams, American painter and historian († 2002)
• 1919 » Cliff Michelmore, English television host and producer († 2016)

• 1892 » William Milligan, Scottish theologian and scholar (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Charles Townsend, American fencer, engineer, and academic (b. 1872)
• 1909 » Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (b. 1839)
• 1913 » Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (b. 1852)
• 1918 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
• 1920 » Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (b. 1855)
• 1936 » Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (b. 1875)
• 1937 » Hugh Thackeray Turner, English architect and painter (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Jaan Anvelt, Estonian theorist and politician (b. 1884)
• 1938 » Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Neeltje
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 6.3 million citizens.
• January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
• January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
• May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
• May 7 » The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
• August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
• September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

The temperature on December 11, 1915 was between 5.6 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.