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• * Maria Johanna (Ria) Koster, Amsterdam († 1996)
• Aartje Bouwmeester, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1961)
• Albert Bloch, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Aleide Maria Geven, Suderwick (D), Duitsland († 2006)
• Abraham Janse, Biggekerke († 1920)
• Anna Emma Louise de Bruijne, Stekene (B), België († 1994)
• A.C.M. (Ton) Vlugt van der, Haarlem, NH, Nederland († 2011)
• Ans Bos, Avereest († 2008)
• Andries Mulder († 1920)
• Aart de Geus, Puttershoek († 1977)

• (Stillborn) SALOMONS (0), Gasselte Drenthe Netherlands
• alida ringeling (44), amsterdam
• adriana van WAGTENDONK (81), schiedam
• Ada E Winspear (66), Erie, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Bogert (52), Dordrecht
• CATHARINA ELISABETH REIJNDERS (22), HAARLEMMERMEER, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agada van der Plas (77), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Peterson (74), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Aaltje Stofkoper (78), Vlissingen
• Antje Otten Aden (76), Ostgroßefehn, Ostfriesland, Deutschland

• 1915 » Sam Ragan, American journalist, author, and poet († 1996)
• 1917 » Evelyn Knight, American singer († 2007)
• 1917 » Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author († 1962)
• 1918 » Ray Graves, American football player and coach († 2015)
• 1919 » Carmen Contreras-Bozak, Puerto Rican-American soldier († 2017)
• 1919 » Tommy Byrne, American baseball player, coach, and politician († 2007)
• 1920 » Rex Allen, American actor and singer-songwriter († 1999)
• 1922 » Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Polish pianist and educator († 2001)
• 1922 » Luis Zuloaga, Venezuelan baseball player († 2013)
• 1922 » Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop († 2014)

• 1889 » Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (b. 1837)
• 1890 » Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop and linguist (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1909 » Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)
• 1910 » Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (b. 1884)
• 1910 » John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (b. 1868)
• 1921 » Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)
• 1936 » Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Malcolm Campbell, English racing driver and journalist (b. 1885)

• 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.
• January 15 » Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
• January 18 » World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
• March 2 » The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
• April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
• July 27 » The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.
• December 23 » Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.

The temperature on December 31, 1919 was between 3.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.