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• Ans Penaat, Bussum († 1967)
• Adrianus van Baarle, Rotterdam
• Anna Peternella Jozefina Manders, Mierlo, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 2001)
• Adolph Weil, Gernsheim, Gross-Gerau, Hessen, Germany († 2010)
• Anna Griens, Horbach, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duitsland
• Anna DE BOCK († 1951)
• Aaltje Kruise, Neuenhuntdorf, Duitlsand († 1986)
• Amelia Madeleine Van Loo, Aardenburg (Ned) († 1983)
• Agnes Maria Marinc, Reysele, Yugoslavia († 1992)
• Anna Catharina Bertha Lievens, Geel, België († 1998)

• Arie Johannes van Rijswijk (69), Zijpe
• Arie Johannes van Rijswijk (69), Oudesluis, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elizabet van Attekum (82), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van Willigen (0), Amsterdam Holland, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Vink (74), Nederhorst den Berg (gem. Wijdemeren)
• Aaltje Vink (74), Nederhorst den Berg (Wijdemeren), Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alewijn Franse van den Berg (24), Schoonrewoerd
• Arnoldus Hendrikus Molmans (78), Boxmeer, Noord Brabant, NEDERLAND
• Adriana Maria den Adel (75), Zaltbommel, Nederland
• Arie Cornelis Schimmel (0)

• 1906 » Avery Fisher, American violinist and engineer, founded Fisher Electronics († 1994)
• 1906 » Georges Ronsse, Belgian cyclist and manager († 1969)
• 1906 » Meindert DeJong, Dutch-American soldier and author († 1991)
• 1907 » Edgar Barrier, American actor († 1964)
• 1908 » T. R. M. Howard, American surgeon and activist († 1976)
• 1908 » Thomas Shaw, American singer and guitarist († 1977)
• 1909 » George Edward Holbrook, American chemist and engineer († 1987)
• 1909 » Harry Helmsley, American businessman († 1997)
• 1910 » Tancredo Neves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Brazil († 1985)
• 1911 » Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, English actor († 1984)

• 1883 » Alexander H. Stephens, American lawyer and politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and educator (b. 1799)
• 1903 » Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (b. 1834)
• 1906 » John Schofield, American general and politician, 28th United States Secretary of War (b. 1831)
• 1915 » William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (b. 1856)
• 1916 » Franz Marc, German painter (b. 1880)
• 1925 » James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
• 1925 » John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1925 » Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German pianist and composer (b. 1854)
• 1927 » Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (b. 1846)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Jacob
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 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
• February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
• February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
• September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
• November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

The temperature on March 4, 1909 was between -5.2 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.