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• Adriana Dingemans, Rotterdam
• Agatha Theresia Veltman, Amsterdam
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van de Ven, Waspik, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Alfried Krupp v.Bohl+Halb, Essen († 1967)
• Aleida Epskamp, Hoogland, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Agnes Geertruida Mentink, Hummelo en Keppel
• Agnes Gertruda (Antje) Mentink, Hummelo en Keppel († 1974)
• Abel Jongbloed, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen
• Adrianus van Ommeren, Lienden († 1991)
• Adriana Doelman, Maasland (Midden-Delfland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1908)

• Alida Clasina Verdel (34), Schoten, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Beek (1), Utrecht
• Amarilla Joy Smith **** (80), Oswego, Kendall, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Charlotte Lindo (80), Parottee, St Elizabeth, Jamaica
• Catherine Kunigunda (90), Evans City, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States
• Anne Emelia Nisbet (79)
• Abraham Salm (64), Utrecht
• Adriana Withagen (72), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Uchtman (0), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Berend Meijer (37), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1902 » Felix Wankel, German engineer († 1988)
• 1904 » Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician († 1999)
• 1904 » Margaret Tafoya, Native American Pueblo potter († 2001)
• 1906 » Art Shires, American baseball player and boxer († 1967)
• 1906 » Chuck Carroll, American football player and lawyer († 2003)
• 1907 » Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed Coventry Cathedral († 1976)
• 1908 » Gene Raymond, American actor and pilot († 1998)
• 1911 » William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founded DDB Worldwide († 1982)
• 1912 » Ben Hogan, American golfer and sportscaster († 1997)
• 1912 » Claire Cribbs, American basketball player and coach († 1985)

• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903)

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

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

• 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
• May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
• July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
• September 30 » The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
• December 11 » The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
• December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
• December 17 » Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan.

The temperature on August 13, 1907 was between 13.8 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.