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• Arie van den Hooven, Zuidland († 2007)
• Arie van den Hooven, Zuidland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Alie de Ronde, Amsterdam († 1999)
• Adriaan Johannes Flipse, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL († 1940)
• Albertje Maria Veldman, Wedde († 2000)
• Alvin Christian Junker, Fairbury, Jefferson, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten († 1996)
• Alida Wouterina van Drunen († 2000)
• Antonia Muskens, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1917)
• Adrianus Buijs, Gilze en Rijen († 1984)
• Antonius Marinus Johannes van der Vlies, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)

• Antonetta de Natris (76), Valkenswaard
• Alfred Couch (67)
• Albert Bolt (28), Soest,, Utrecht, Neder
• Anna Lichtenberg (75), Ohio
• Antonia Verspeek (83), 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland
• Aafje Visser (16), Wognum
• Aldegondis van den Brink (64), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Bolt (28), Soest
• Adriana Schenk (78), Rotterdam
• ADRIANA SCHENK (78), ROTTERDAM

• 1911 » Hortense Calisher, American author († 2009)
• 1914 » Harry F. Byrd Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician († 2013)
• 1915 » Aziz Nesin, Turkish author and poet († 1995)
• 1916 » Michel Chartrand, Canadian trade union leader and activist († 2010)
• 1917 » Audrey Totter, American actress († 2013)
• 1917 » Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author († 1997)
• 1917 » David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher († 1992)
• 1918 » Jean Marchand, Canadian trade union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada († 1988)
• 1922 » Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter († 2020)
• 1922 » George Roy Hill, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2002)

• 1915 » Upendrakishore Ray, Indian painter and composer (b. 1863)
• 1916 » Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Lucien Petit-Breton, French-Argentinian cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1919 » Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1835)
• 1920 » Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)
• 1921 » Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852)
• 1927 » Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1929 » Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France (b. 1838)
• 1935 » Martin O'Meara, Irish-Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1882)
• 1937 » Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)

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. Grietje
14. Geertruida
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.
• April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
• July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
• 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 15 » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
• November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
• 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 20, 1916 was between -1.7 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.