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• Adriana van Dal († 2006)
• Altamont Yen Lueng Chin, Highgate, St Mary, Jamaica († 2003)
• Adriana Antonia Kevenaar, Rotterdam († 1990)
• Ada Edith W Joyce, West Ham, Essex († 2005)
• Anna Louise Bread, Compton, Californië, VS († 2003)
• Bernard MOLES, Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia († 1998)
• Anthonetta Booij, Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Ary Boerefijn († 2000)
• Albert Stokkink, Lochem, Nederland († 1988)
• ARIJ BOEREFIJN, PIJNACKER († 2000)

• Albertus Alberts Goosen (71), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Klaas Bakker (61), Meppel
• Alida Maria Snoek (54), Abcoude-Baambrugge
• Anna Ludovica Van den Wyngaert (60), Antwerpen
• Albertus Albertsz Goosen (71), Kampen, ov.nld
• Anna Maria Pets (81), Roubaix, Dép. Nord, Hauts-de-France
• Anna Maria Louisa Sijbrands (23), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Alberts Goosen (71), Kampen
• Anna Maria Engels (77), Heerlen
• Anna Maria - Maria Jaspers (71), Rütenbrock, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany

• 1911 » Danny O'Dea, English actor († 2003)
• 1912 » Elias Degiannis, Greek commander († 1943)
• 1912 » Lady Bird Johnson, American beautification activist; 38th First Lady of the United States († 2007)
• 1913 » Giorgio Oberweger, Italian discus thrower and hurdler († 1998)
• 1915 » Barbara Billingsley, American actress († 2010)
• 1915 » Phillip Glasier, English author and academic († 2000)
• 1917 » Gene Rayburn, American game show host and actor († 1999)
• 1921 » Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist and composer († 1996)
• 1921 » Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1963)
• 1922 » Ruth Roman, American actress († 1999)

• 1891 » Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)
• 1899 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
• 1902 » Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)
• 1918 » Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (b. 1864)
• 1925 » Amelie Beese, German pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1939 » Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886)
• 1940 » Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (b. 1903)

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.
• May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
• June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
• August 28 » World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
• September 19 » World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
• September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
• November 30 » Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.

The temperature on December 22, 1916 was between 1.3 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.