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• Bep Noordijk, Vlaardingen († 1996)
• Blanken, Haastrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta van den Heijden, Hedikhuizen († 1996)
• Adriaan (Ad) Wilbrink, Eindhoven († 1981)
• Aaltje Barmentloo, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2004)
• Alice Mildred Campbell, KIngston, Jamaica († 2007)
• Adriaan Wilbrink, Strijp, Nederland († 1981)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Knol († 1991)
• Alberta Gerharda Borneman, Ane († 2011)
• Adriaan (Ad) Wilbrink, Strijp, Eindhoven († 1981)

• Bartus van den Bos (0), Sliedrecht
• Clementia van der Helm (56), Monster
• Abraham Gaim Gomes de Mesquita (40), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Aloijsia Henrica Jonkers (5), Oudenbosch
• Christoffel Pieter Cornelis Lauterslager (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Charles Wade Thompson (93), Madisonville,Madison,Tex, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Klijn (72), Zoeterwoude
• Aafje Boezer (82), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Cornelia Klijn (73), Zoeterwoude, Netherlands
• Aaltje van Groen (26), Nederhorst den Berg

• 1914 » O. Winston Link, American photographer († 2001)
• 1916 » Ruth Johnson Colvin, American author and educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide
• 1917 » Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer († 2008)
• 1917 » Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani author and scholar († 2011)
• 1917 » Pete T. Cenarrusa, American soldier, pilot, and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho († 2013)
• 1920 » Frederick Rotimi Williams, Nigerian lawyer and politician († 2005)
• 1921 » Eulalio González, Mexican singer-songwriter, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2003)
• 1922 » Cy Leslie, American record producer, founded Pickwick Records († 2008)
• 1923 » Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist († 2014)
• 1923 » Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist

• 1898 » Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
• 1908 » American Horse, American tribal leader and educator (b. 1840)
• 1917 » Frank Gotch, American wrestler (b. 1878)
• 1921 » Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1835)
• 1922 » Gabriel Narutowicz, Lithuanian–Polish engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1865)
• 1928 » Elinor Wylie, American poet and author (b. 1885)
• 1935 » Thelma Todd, American actress and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1936 » Frank Eugene, American-German photographer and educator (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist (b. 1858)

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

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

• 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 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 6.7 million citizens.
• February 26 » President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
• May 4 » May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
• May 16 » A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
• October 9 » The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
• November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
• December 1 » Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)

The temperature on December 16, 1919 was between -2.5 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.