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• * Marius Johannes Ackermans, Kerkdriel († 1985)
• Adriana Catharina Maria van Winden, Kethel en Spaland († 1908)
• Angus Donald Macdonald, Kilmore, Sleat, Isle of Skye
• Adriaan van den Bos, Rotterdam
• Anje Johanna van de Laan, Middelstum
• Anna Sarah Rykhoek, Carmel, Sioux, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1986)
• Angele Collinet, Corny-sur-Moselle († 1940)
• Alida Steenbeek, Vreeland, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aloisio Solognier
• Anna Maria Mathilda Geurds, Duiven, Gelderland, Nederland

• Antje de Kuijper (75), Schelluinen (NL)
• Willem Hubert (1898), Utrecht
• Alida van Meel (27), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Amelsvoort (68), Loon op Zand
• Aukje Freerks Pruik (55), Groningen
• Adriana Maria Huldij (61), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adam Anthonius van den Berg (44), Delft
• Antonius Hubertus Roestenburg (0), Tilburg
• Antje Sikkes Oegema (54), Wouterswoude, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Jacobs Zoodsma (73), Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland

• 1903 » Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator († 2003)
• 1903 » Hermann Engelhard, German runner and coach († 1984)
• 1905 » Jacques Goddet, French journalist († 2000)
• 1905 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author († 1980)
• 1908 » William Frankena, American philosopher and academic († 1994)
• 1910 » Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Russian poet and author († 1971)
• 1911 » Irving Fein, American producer and manager († 2012)
• 1912 » Kazimierz Leski, Polish pilot and engineer († 2000)
• 1912 » Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic († 1989)
• 1912 » Vishnu Prabhakar, Indian author and playwright († 2009)

• 1874 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
• 1876 » Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (b. 1794)
• 1880 » Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844)
• 1914 » Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1929 » Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864)
• 1934 » Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
• 1940 » Édouard Vuillard, French painter (b. 1868)
• 1940 » Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1881)

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 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
• April 8 » H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
• 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.
• April 16 » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
• July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
• September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.

The temperature on June 21, 1908 was between 10.8 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.