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• Aaltjen Margaretha Brokke, Hengelo († 2014)
• Albertje Pullen, Bergentheim († 1989)
• Anne Maria VAN DEN BURG, noordwijkerhout, Nederland († 2003)
• Cornelia BROEDERS, Zevenbergen († 1994)
• Cornelia Broeders, Zevenbergen, NB, Nederland († 1994)
• Cornelia Hemels, Alkmaar
• Annie Bijlholt, Groningen, Nederland († 2004)
• Celia Janna Budding († 2008)
• Bernard Henry Suelmann, St Louis Missouri (USA) († 1997)
• Anthony John Russo, Kings, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1991)

• Albert de Jonge (55), Rotterdam
• Adriaan van Hamont (86), Diessen
• Alida Cornelia Christina ten Bruggencate (83), Groningen
• Anna Maria van Baars (84), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth van Baars (84), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriaan van Hamond (86), Diessen, Nederland
• Adriaan Nuijens (78), Zonnemaire
• Adriaan van Hamond, Diessen
• Adrianus Augustinus van Rooij (78), Vught
• Adrianus van Bemmel (73), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• 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)
• 1924 » Robert Sobukwe, South African banker and politician († 1978)
• 1925 » Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua († 1980)
• 1926 » Adetowun Ogunsheye, first female Nigerian professor and university dean
• 1927 » Bhumibol Adulyadej, Thai king († 2016)
• 1927 » W.D. Amaradeva, Sri Lankan musician and composer († 2016)

• 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)
• 1951 » Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)

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

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

• 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
• February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
• February 16 » Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
• June 9 » Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
• September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
• November 9 » In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
• December 21 » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.

The temperature on December 5, 1923 was between 1.2 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.