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• Antonia Maas, Deurne († 1996)
• Allegonda Baselmans, Eersel († 2009)
• Anne Wedgwood († 2000)
• Alouisius Joannes Kaelen, Margraten, Limburg, Netherlands († 2002)
• Antonius* Joseph Bernsen, Gronau († 1940)
• Antonius de Graaf, Bussum († 1990)
• Catharina Amelia Verkaik, Amsterdam
• Berend Rutgers, Nieuwe Pekela († 2002)
• Alouisius Joannes KAELEN, Margraten († 2002)
• Aaltje Sternberg, Slochteren († 1998)

• Adrianus Jacobus van Asten, Leende
• "Friedrich" Wilhelm Ewald Leopold von Kleist (59), Slupsk / Stolp, Pologne
• Arendje van Beelen (32), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Pieters van der Laan (26), groningen
• Anna Barbara Bellen (68), Kerkrade
• Arend Kors (59), Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus van Esch (42), Tilburg, Netherlands
• Aart KOK (61), Ammerstol
• Albert van der Laan (26), Groningen
• Aloys Bauwen (87), Oostende

• 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)

• 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.
• February 5 » The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
• March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
• May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
• September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
• November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
• December 7 » World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.

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.