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• Albartus Hendrik van Druten, Tiel († 1908)
• Alberdina Jacobs WIERSEMA, Ulrum Groningen Netherlands
• Alberdina Geertruida Johanna Schrander
• Anna Grüner, Maudach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Duitsland († 1998)
• Anna Catharina Petronella Hoogers, Sevenum, Limburg, Nederland († 1910)
• Adriana Fransisca Johanna van Overbeek, s-Hertogenbosch, NL († 1933)
• Abraham Kok, De Lier, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van Loon, Waspik
• Anna Catharina Maria Degeling, Hoorn († 2006)
• , BRUGGE(BELGIQUE occi) († 1970)

• Catharina Bastiana van der Steen (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Cornelia HAALEBOS (69), Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia van Kuijk (71), Heusden, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Arend Koers (87), Ommen
• Dirk Schuijt (78), Middelburg
• Adriana Pietronella Huijsman (54), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Hoekstra (30), Haskerland
• Cynthia Stokes Cooper (79), Woodruff, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
• Abraham Boot (60)
• Dirk Schuijt (78), Middelburg, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1904 » Sharkey Bonano, American singer, trumpet player, and bandleader († 1972)
• 1905 » J. William Fulbright, American lawyer and politician († 1995)
• 1906 » Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor and composer († 1988)
• 1906 » Hugh Gaitskell, British politician and leader of the Labour Party († 1963)
• 1906 » Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress († 1996)
• 1906 » Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French painter († 1997)
• 1908 » Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter († 1980)
• 1909 » Robert Helpmann, Australian dancer, actor, and choreographer († 1986)
• 1910 » Abraham A. Ribicoff, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services († 1998)
• 1912 » Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic († 1997)

• 1876 » Charles Goodyear, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
• 1889 » Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist and academic (b. 1786)
• 1909 » Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Raymond Whittindale, English rugby player (b. 1883)
• 1917 » James Hope Moulton, English philologist and scholar (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Hans Fruhstorfer, German entomologist and explorer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1855)
• 1940 » Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (b. 1865)

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.
• March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
• April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
• May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
• July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
• November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.

The temperature on April 9, 1908 was between 0.1 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.