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• Antonia Allegonda Maria GLOUDEMANS († 2009)
• Anna Vreugdenhil, De Lier († 2004)
• Celea Florence Battaglia, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States († 1996)
• Aagje Rutgers, Hoorn († 1990)
• Charles Lester Robinson, Carthage, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Aaltje Sibon, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1922)
• Annie Vreugdenhil, De Lier († 2004)
• Adrianus Maus, Blerick, Li.NL († 1991)
• Anne Marie Julie JOLY, Saint-Martin-Boulogne(62)... Hauts de France († 2012)
• Albertus Harsevoort, Collendoorn († 1937)

• Akke Jans Kuipers (35), Lonneker, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Adèle Josephine Alphonsina Maria van Cranenburgh (26), Leiden
• Adrianus Bluekens (63), Poppel (België)
• Aaltje Klazes Stoter (1), Hollandsche Veldt (Hoogeveen)
• A.M.E. Lormans (39), Ospel
• Adrianus Bluekens (63), Poppel, Antwerpen, België
• Adrianus Petrus Claassens (45), Rotterdam
• Bluekens Adrianus (63), Poppel, Antwerpen, België
• Adriana Maas (60), Zaamslag
• Adrianus Petrus Claassens (45), Rotterdam

• 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)
• 1922 » Casey Ribicoff, American philanthropist († 2011)
• 1922 » Don Robertson, American songwriter and pianist († 2015)

• 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.
• 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.
• April 24 » World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
• June 24 » First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
• August 2 » The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
• October 1 » World War I: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.
• October 29 » The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
• December 16 » Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic; it is dissolved in 1919.

The temperature on December 5, 1918 was between 7.3 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.