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• Antonius Petrus Verkerk, Werkhoven
• Anna Stefens, Papenburg († 1992)
• Anna Boers, Vleuten
• Akina Van Dijken, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 1992)
• Albertus Kuijken (Kuyken), Lommel, Limburg, België
• Adriana (Sjane) Holman, Den Helder († 1992)
• Anna Stefens, Papenburg. Emsland († 1992)
• Aaltje Bekendam, Utrecht {UT} († 2009)
• Alphons Sanders, Meijel († 1989)
• Aaltje van den Born, Huizen († 1915)

• Barbara Margaritha Johannsd X Kachelhofer (73), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Cornelis van Gils (30), Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertje Potze (66), Vlagtweede, Westerwolde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Aaltje van Beelen (0), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Allerdina Jans Huizinga (79), Eenrum, gem. De Marne, Groningen, Nederland
• Allerdina Jans HUIZINGA (79), Eenrum, De Marne, Groningen, Nederland
• Aalt Arentsen (83), Wormen (Apeldoorn), Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus van der Stel (79), Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Kamphuis
• Albertje Potze (66), Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland

• 1914 » Frances Reid, American actress († 2010)
• 1914 » Ljubica Sokić, Serbian painter and illustrator († 2009)
• 1914 » Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant († 1996)
• 1915 » Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-Austrian soprano and actress († 2006)
• 1915 » Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author († 2000)
• 1916 » Colin McCool, Australian cricketer († 1986)
• 1916 » Jerome Beatty Jr., American soldier, journalist, and author († 2002)
• 1916 » Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer († 2020)
• 1917 » James Jesus Angleton, American CIA agent († 1987)
• 1917 » James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)

• 1906 » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)

• 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 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
• January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
• March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
• 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 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
• 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.

The temperature on December 9, 1915 was between -0.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.