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• Annigje Boogaard, Sliedrecht († 1994)
• Adrianus Nicolaas van Noije, Kaatsheuvel († 1999)
• Albertine Deschênes, Canada († 2010)
• Arlene Hilbert, Pennsylvania († 2003)
• Berend Jan Voskamp, rotterdam († 2006)
• de Meester, Ellewoutsdijk († 1915)
• Adam de Kievit († 1999)
• Ben Walter Lowell Jr, St Louis, Missouri († 1991)
• Andreas Sijbers († 1992)
• Archibald Oscar Muller († 1972)

• Annetje Nieuwland (74), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berdina Elizabeth van As (82), Amsterdam
• Adriana Antje Roth (68), Lugano, Ticino, Zwitserland
• Annetje Nieuwland (74), Rotterdam
• Beitske Hibma (39), Joure
• Barend (1) VERVLOET (3), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van Maurik (57), Arnhem
• Antje Landman (31), Nieuwolda (NL)
• Anna Sophia Rauch (0), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Knol (0), Borger, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1910 » Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1973)
• 1911 » Dal Stivens, Australian soldier and author († 1997)
• 1912 » John Frost, Indian-English general († 1993)
• 1914 » Mary Logan Reddick, American neuroembryologist († 1966)
• 1915 » Sam Ragan, American journalist, author, and poet († 1996)
• 1917 » Evelyn Knight, American singer († 2007)
• 1917 » Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author († 1962)
• 1918 » Ray Graves, American football player and coach († 2015)
• 1919 » Carmen Contreras-Bozak, Puerto Rican-American soldier († 2017)
• 1919 » Tommy Byrne, American baseball player, coach, and politician († 2007)

• 1889 » George Kerferd, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Victoria (b. 1831)
• 1889 » Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (b. 1837)
• 1890 » Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop and linguist (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1909 » Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)
• 1910 » Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (b. 1884)
• 1910 » John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (b. 1868)
• 1921 » Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)
• 1936 » Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1864)

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.
• April 25 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
• 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.
• July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
• August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
• October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

The temperature on December 31, 1915 was between 2.3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south.