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• Adrianus de Jong, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1919)
• Adrianus van Vliet, Ter Aar (Korteraar)
• "Antoine" Marie Hubert d'Achon, Linières-Bouton, Maine-et-Loire, France († 1994)
• "Suzanne" Josèphe Marie Louise de Lorgeril, Paramé, Ille-et-Vilaine, France († 1961)
• Verdegaal, Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Emerencia Nelemans, Zundert, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 2011)
• Bernice Marie Neilson, Emmett, Gem Co., Idaho, Verenigde Staten († 1964)
• Arthur Henry Lasher, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Charlotte Isabelle Bates, Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, Canada († 2006)
• Albert Kamping, Noordsleen, Sleen († 2003)

• aalbertus dirk van koetsveld (7), zeist
• Nicolaas van Rijn (22), 's-Gravenzande
• Anna Maria de Leyer (41)
• Annezia Johanna van AALST (0), vuren
• "Viktoria Feodora" Agnes Leopoldine Elisabeth Reuss (29), Rostock, Allemagne
• Neeltje Koelmans (58), Vrouwenparochie
• Anna Maria Dina Horijon (18), Nederweert
• * Johannes Baars (35), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Alexander Grant Clifford (65), Vanderburgh County, Indiana
• Aart Jeronimus (0), Rotterdam

• 1913 » Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1913 » Ray Meyer, American basketball player and coach († 2006)
• 1913 » Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1916 » Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer († 1973)
• 1916 » Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American trade union leader and academic († 2008)
• 1917 » Ossie Davis, American actor and activist († 2005)
• 1920 » Robert Leckie, American soldier and author († 2001)
• 1922 » Esther Lederberg, American microbiologist († 2006)
• 1922 » Jack Brooks, American colonel, lawyer, and politician († 2012)
• 1923 » Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Greater London († 2019)

• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 » Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)
• 1936 » Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
• 1939 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1897)

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

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

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
• February 1 » Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
• February 5 » SSTuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
• May 2 » General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
• July 26 » Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy.
• August 16 » The Battle of Lake Baikal was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
• August 17 » Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.

The temperature on December 18, 1918 was between 1.9 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.