About the day » Thursday January 2, 1908Calender converter

• Aafke VRUGT, Noordbroek, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Hanhart, De Haart (Aalten)
• Albert William Kittrell [Af-Am] († 1992)
• Anna van Zee, Pella (Marion), Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1988)
• Amelia Celina Buts, Itegem, 2222, België
• Albert Jean Louis Eugène GOUBLE, Lys-lez-Lannoy, 59367, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France († 1979)
• Adriana Helena Ockers, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Hendrik Groenestein, Rotterdam
• Albertje de Jonge, Sint Annen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Gerardus Marie van Zeijl, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Adriana Maria de Bont (80), Baarle-Nassau
• Bartje Lamberts Hulleman (60), Barsbeek, Ambt Vollenhove, Nederland
• Allardus Gerardus Peters, Druten, NL
• Amandus Van den Broeck (67), Booischot,, Antwerpen, België
• Bartje Lamberts Lamberts Hulleman (60), Barsbeek
• Aaltje Ramaker- (13), Oranjedorp, Nederland
• Bartje Hulleman (60), Barsbeek (Ambt Vollenhove)
• Anna Willems (75), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barbara Arika Boer (1), Alkemade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Slooves (88), Noord Scharwoude

• 1901 » Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society († 1939)
• 1902 » Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer († 2007)
• 1903 » Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest verified living person
• 1904 » Walter Heitler, German physicist and chemist († 1981)
• 1905 » Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1905 » Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor († 1998)
• 1909 » Barry Goldwater, American politician, businessman, and author († 1998)
• 1909 » Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author († 2009)
• 1913 » Anna Lee, English-American actress († 2004)
• 1913 » Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer and activist († 1992)

• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1920 » Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
• 1939 » Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
• 1946 » Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician (b. 1870)

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

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

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
• January 13 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
• February 1 » Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
• April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
• August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
• September 16 » The General Motors Corporation is founded.
• December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.

The temperature on January 2, 1908 was between -10.8 °C and -4.4 °C and averaged -7.0 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.