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• Adriana Petronella Broer, Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Adrianus Teunis Elisabertus van der Most, Kethel en Spaland († 1910)
• Aalt Bart Henderikus Rosien, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Hendrik Mussche, 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Louwdijk, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1909)
• Anna Simonis, Kerkrade (L († 1910)
• Anna Johanna de Zeeuw, Waspik, Provincie Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Alice Maria Amondine van Gils, Leuven in België
• Alma Gunnar Baumbach, Lidingö, Stockholm, Sweden († 2000)
• Anna Hendrika TERSTALL, Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Bernardus Hamers (79), Tllburg (N.Br.)
• Adriana Dekker (53), Heiloo
• Catharina Francisca CASTELEYN (81), Brugge
• Aafje Dorreboom (45), Amsterdam
• Aaltje Wijnker (66), Hensbroek, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• van den Broek (0), Hoeven
• Aaltje Wijnker (66), Hensbroek
• Arie de Vos (1), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Bloem (76), Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje (Cornelis-dochter) Cornelisdr Wijnker (66), Hensbroek, Nederland

• 1899 » Gertrude Berg, American actress, screenwriter and producer († 1966)
• 1900 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist († 1938)
• 1901 » Jean Grémillon, French director, composer, and screenwriter († 1959)
• 1904 » Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician († 1998)
• 1905 » Tekin Arıburun, Turkish soldier and politician, President of Turkey († 1993)
• 1906 » Natalie Savage Carlson, American author († 1997)
• 1908 » Johnny Burke, American songwriter († 1964)
• 1911 » Michael Hordern, English actor († 1995)
• 1915 » Ray Stark, American film producer († 2004)
• 1916 » James Herriot, English veterinarian and author († 1995)

• 1890 » Joseph Hergenröther, German historian and cardinal (b. 1824)
• 1891 » Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842)
• 1896 » William Morris, English author and poet (b. 1834)
• 1907 » Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (b. 1835)
• 1911 » Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1936 » John Heisman, American football player and coach (b. 1869)

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.
• January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
• February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
• April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
• August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
• 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.

The temperature on October 3, 1909 was between 8.3 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.