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• Adrianus Petrus de Jong, Dongen († 1981)
• Adriana Johana van der Gaag, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Abaham van der Wel, Monster
• Aaltje Morsch, Heiloo, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1909)
• Alice Marie De Caluwaert, Meerdonk († 1995)
• Hendrik Pals, Emmen
• Abraham van Wel, Monster († 1989)
• Adrianus Jacobus Leijen, Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1909)
• Albertine Anna Emilia Daems, Hoboken 2660 († 1988)
• Alida Brouwer, Loenen aan de Vecht (Gem Stichtse Vecht), Utrecht, Nederland Nederland († 1960)

• Anna Wilmina (Wilhelmina) Kuipers (59), Stad-Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arie Willem van der Nat, Giessen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnold Janssen (71), Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland
• ALEJANDRA Delgado (69), Porfirio Díaz, Coahuila, México
• Adriaantje van Dijke (75), Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Jannes SLOOT (64), Franeker,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland
• Arnold Janssen (71)
• Angélique de Penfentenyo de Kervéréguin (72)
• Adeline M Crout (57), Waukesha, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States of America
• Aaltje Albertus Peters (65), Wormerveer

• 1907 » Janusz Kusociński, Polish runner and soldier († 1940)
• 1908 » Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic († 2003)
• 1909 » Gene Krupa, American drummer, composer, and actor († 1973)
• 1909 » Jean Bugatti, German-French engineer († 1939)
• 1912 » Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1996)
• 1913 » Alexander Marinesko, Ukrainian-Russian lieutenant († 1963)
• 1913 » Eugène Brands, Dutch painter († 2002)
• 1913 » Lloyd Bridges, American actor († 1998)
• 1913 » Miriam Hyde, Australian pianist and composer († 2005)
• 1914 » Stefan Bałuk, Polish general († 2014)

• 1885 » Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer and conductor (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Fanny Kemble, English actress (b. 1809)
• 1896 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (b. 1822)
• 1905 » George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1919 » Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1929 » George Cope, American painter (b. 1855)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
• February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
• February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
• May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
• November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
• December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The temperature on January 15, 1909 was between -0.3 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.