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• ?? Ockeloen, Utrecht († 1909)
• Amedeus Vercauteren, Bazel
• Adelina Alphonsina Engels, Temse († 1909)
• Agnes Andersdatter Haraset, Vallset, Stange, Hedmark, Norway († 1909)
• Adriana Susanna Bregman, Rotterdam
• Anna Catharina (Zus) Spekken, Valthermond, Odoorn
• Andries Cremer, Coevorden,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Albertus Strijker, Avereest
• Alice Lucile MANNING, King, Washington, United States
• Andrew Wesley Bullington, Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States († 1975)

• AMELIE PAULINE GONZALAS (56), Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaantje de Lange (39), Rotterdam
• Aartje de Wilde(n) (60), Amersfoort
• Aart Schep (71), Streefkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Geltink (81), Zutphen
• Adrianus van Nispen (0), Etten-Leur
• Andrew Nethercoat Moffat (43), Extension, British Columbia, Canada
• Ambrosius VANCRAEYENEST (0), Anzegem, BE
• Agneta Wilhelmina Johanna Matthes (62), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• - Peters (0), Schinveld, Limburg, Nederland

• 1905 » Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress († 1987)
• 1905 » John Hoyt, American actor († 1991)
• 1907 » Mrs. Miller, American novelty singer († 1997)
• 1907 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic († 1959)
• 1908 » Joshua Logan, American director and screenwriter († 1988)
• 1908 » Mehmet Ali Aybar, Turkish lawyer and politician († 1995)
• 1909 » Tony Malinosky, American baseball player and soldier († 2011)
• 1911 » Brian O'Nolan, Irish author and playwright († 1966)
• 1911 » Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist and academic († 2011)
• 1912 » Fritz Fischer, German physician († 2003)

• 1885 » Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Ralph Tollemache, English priest (b. 1826)
• 1913 » Hans von Bartels, German painter and educator (b. 1856)
• 1914 » Albert Solomon, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1876)
• 1918 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (b. 1888)
• 1921 » John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1869)
• 1927 » Sam Warner, Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1887)
• 1929 » Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (b. 1876)
• 1930 » Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, Indian-English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Air (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Renée Adorée, French-American actress (b. 1898)

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 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
• August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
• September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
• December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.

The temperature on October 5, 1909 was between 13.0 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.