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• Anna Helena Klaverstijn, Amsterdam († 2012)
• Alexander Jozef PELCKMANS, Merksplas, Antwerpen, Vlaams Gewest (BE) († 1999)
• Antoinette van der KRUK, Den Haag († 1951)
• Andries Turksema, Roderveld († 2007)
• Antje Koningstein, Den Helder
• Adrianus Leendert Vriens, Rotterdam
• Antje Hofman, Klijndijk, Odoorn († 2015)
• Antje Tamsma, Stiens († 2010)
• Anna Maria Westerweel Westermanel, Rotterdam († 2007)
• Bernhard Hermsen, Essen-Borbeck († 1974)

• Ambrose Umstead Bergey (49)
• Alderd van der Zwaard (63), Aalsmeer
• Abraham Verlet, Oude Zijds Kapel
• Anje Jacobs Helmus (88), Grijpskerk
• Adella Augustina Pieters (74), Bogor, Indonesie
• Alida Josina Pietersdr van Leeuwen (73), Rotterdam
• Aaltjen Margaretha van Dam (84), Amsterdam
• Alzina Marcella Piper (72), Weston, Wood, Ohio, United States
• Aaltje Salomon Visjager (84), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Barbara Slangen (65), Bunde

• 1912 » Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player († 1989)
• 1913 » Arnold Brown, English-Canadian missionary, 11th General of The Salvation Army († 2002)
• 1914 » Alan Bullock, English historian and author († 2004)
• 1914 » Larry Noble, English comedian and actor († 1993)
• 1915 » B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa († 1983)
• 1916 » Archie Moore, American boxer († 1998)
• 1916 » Leonard Weisgard, American author and illustrator († 2000)
• 1918 » Bill Vukovich, Serbian-American race car driver († 1955)
• 1919 » Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot († 1942)
• 1920 » George P. Shultz, American economist and politician, 60th United States Secretary of State

• 1908 » Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)
• 1919 » Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850)
• 1922 » Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter and photographer (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
• 1924 » Samuel Gompers, English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor (b. 1850)
• 1927 » Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1931 » Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
• 1935 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Neeltje

• 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 6.4 million citizens.
• January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
• April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
• May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
• August 5 » World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
• September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
• December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

The temperature on December 13, 1916 was between -0.5 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.