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• Adriaan Vreugdenhil, 's Gravenzande
• Anna Hermina Maria (Annie) Hulleman († 2023)
• Bob Bailey Talley, Texon, Regan County, Texas († 2005)
• Cornelis Hubertus Westerweele, ovezande (z) († 2010)
• Abraham de Groot, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 2002)
• Edward Klomp, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 1997)
• adriaantje SCHALKOORT, nieuw-beijerland († 1995)
• Aderianus Nicolaas Bierman, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1996)
• Cornelis Hubertus Westerweele, Ovezande, Zeeland, Nederland († 2010)
• Evelyn Florence Todd ****, Freestone, California, Verenigde Staten († 1988)

• Anna Maria Nijsten (71), Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Andries Wink (81), Gemeente Haarlemmermeer, Raadhuisplein 1, Hoofddorp, 2132, Nederland
• Baukje Reins Kuiken (68), Barradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• David Gerrit Bogers (71), Made en Drimmelen
• Anton Wihelm Giltjes (30), Wissel, Northrein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Andries Tat Raid (97)
• Anna Barbara Mertens (56), Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Derk Dijkema (74), Muskegon, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina van den Bulk (82), BERKEL EN RODENRIJS (Lansingerland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• cornelis van oosterhout (63), etten-Leur

• 1924 » Bent Fabric, Danish pianist and composer († 2020)
• 1924 » John Love, Zimbabwean race car driver († 2005)
• 1924 » Mário Soares, Portuguese historian, lawyer, and politician, 17th President of Portugal († 2017)
• 1924 » Mary Ellen Estill. American mathematician († 2013)
• 1925 » Hermano da Silva Ramos, French-Brazilian race car driver
• 1926 » William John McNaughton, American bishop
• 1927 » Helen Watts, Welsh opera singer († 2009)
• 1927 » Jack S. Blanton, American businessman and philanthropist († 2013)
• 1928 » Mickey Thompson, American race car driver († 1988)
• 1928 » Noam Chomsky, American linguist and philosopher

• 1899 » Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
• 1902 » Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
• 1906 » Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
• 1913 » Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828)
• 1917 » Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826)
• 1918 » Frank Wilson, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1859)
• 1941 » Attack on Pearl Harbor:
• 1947 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)

• 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
• January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
• April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
• October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
• October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
• November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
• December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

The temperature on December 7, 1926 was between 1.1 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.