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• Abe Stapersma, Hennaarderadeel, Littenseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriaan Thomas Zoeter, Bruinisse († 1982)
• Anna Vandeputte, Izegem, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1981)
• Grietje De Groote, Emmen
• Abe Stapersma, Wommels, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1985)
• Agatha Maria Albers, Bussum (Gooise Meren), Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1911)
• Adriana Henderika Batstra, Sneek, S√∫dwest-Frysl√¢n, Friesland, Nederland († 1984)
• Adrianus Johannes Gerardus van Eijndhoven, Oisterwijk († 1979)
• adriaantje van der WAAL, rotterdam († 1975)
• Alberdina Eva Christina Ploeg, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Catharina Johanna Teppers (68)
• Agnes Luijten (38), Maastricht
• Bernardus Beemer (48), Werkhoven, Nederland
• Cornelia van Delft (76), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clasina Maria van Riel (0), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• "Blanche" Françoise Marie Jeanne de Falguière (54), Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
• Hendrika Schel(Huijberts) (0), Geffen
• Aleida KELDERMAN (82), Vinkwijk, Montferland (NL)
• Anna Maria Schouten (0), Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis Molenwijk (0), Delft

• 1905 » Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor († 1977)
• 1906 » Julio Rosales, Filipino cardinal († 1983)
• 1906 » Kaka Hathrasi, Indian poet and author († 1995)
• 1906 » Maurice Maillot, French actor († 1968)
• 1907 » Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1907 » Leon Askin, Austrian actor († 2005)
• 1908 » Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic († 1996)
• 1910 » Bernard Kangro, Estonian journalist, author, and poet († 1994)
• 1910 » Josef Tal, Israeli pianist and composer († 2008)
• 1910 » Joseph F. Enright, American captain († 2000)

• 1872 » Charles XV of Sweden (b. 1826)
• 1890 » Dion Boucicault, Irish-American actor and playwright (b. 1820)
• 1896 » Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1905 » George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian archaeologist and historian (b. 1850)
• 1911 » Pyotr Stolypin, Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1862)
• 1915 » Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree
• 1924 » F. H. Bradley, English philosopher and author (b. 1846)
• 1939 » Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
• 1941 » Fred Karno, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1866)

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.
• February 1 » Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
• March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
• April 11 » SMSBlücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
• July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
• September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

The temperature on September 18, 1908 was between 8.1 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.