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• Christiaan Wilhelm Saffrie, Djogdjakarta, Ned. Indië († 1943)
• Charles Arthur Rudolf Doelitzsch, Makassar Celebes († 1940)
• Anne Wedgwood († 2000)
• Clyde Bostedt († 1995)
• Branca Piller, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Aaltje Sternberg, Slochteren († 1998)
• Antonia Maas, Deurne († 1996)
• Berend Hendriks Rutgers, Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland († 2002)
• Berend Rutgers, Nieuwe Pekela († 2002)
• Branca Piller, Amsterdam († 1943)

• Adrianus Jacobus van Asten, Leende
• Alida den Breens
• Adriana van Zijderveld (1), Tiel
• Arendje van Beelen (32), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Bakker (68), Zwaag
• Arendje van Beelen (32), Noordwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arien Koolhaas (56), Hem
• Anna Catharina Croes (68), Aruba
• Anne Alberts de Vries (35), utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Popkes van der Meulen (60), Tietjerksteradeel, Fr, Nederland

• 1912 » Kate Simon, American travel writer († 1990)
• 1912 » Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player († 1965)
• 1913 » Esther Borja, Cuban soprano and actress († 2013)
• 1914 » Hans Hellmut Kirst, German lieutenant and author († 1989)
• 1916 » Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist and immunologist, created the world's first effective live polio vaccine († 2013)
• 1916 » Walt McPherson, American basketball player and coach († 2013)
• 1917 » Ken Downing, English race car driver († 2004)
• 1918 » Charity Adams Earley, Black American Army officer († 2002)
• 1919 » Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, English historian and politician († 2020)
• 1921 » Alvy Moore, American actor and producer († 1997)

• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)
• 1942 » Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1872)

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

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

• 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 6.5 million citizens.
• May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
• July 27 » World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
• November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
• November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
• December 15 » World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.

The temperature on December 5, 1917 was between -8.9 °C and -3.0 °C and averaged -5.6 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.