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• Angenietje Keijzer, Stad aan 't Haringvliet († 2004)
• Adriana van Diermen, Stoutenburg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adolph William Goerke († 1991)
• Aartje den Boer, Ridderkerk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Albert Hubers, Minnesota († 1994)
• Antje Postma, Hoogkerk, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• * Johanna Engelina Gerdina van Hulten, Drunen († 1999)
• Adriana Knake, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1994)
• Anna Elisabeth Schluter, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Den Boer, Ridderkerk († 1990)

• Charlotte Lina Wilson (20), Warren Twp., Midland Co., MI
• Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (70), Charleston, South Carolina
• Ariën Ursem (76), Venray
• Barbara Annie Isarin (0), Hilversum,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Boef (66), Koudekerk
• Anna Elisabetha Hanssen (51), Schaesberg, Limburg, Nederland
• "Théodore" Jean Marie Joseph Aloïs Gonzague Moretus (71), Boechout, Belgique
• * Willem Hijkoop (84), Leerbroek
• Arien Ursem (76), Venray
• Catharina Hermina van Honstede (52), Den Haag

• 1905 » Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau, Haitian sociologist and educator († 1970)
• 1908 » Henri of Orléans, († 1999)
• 1908 » Lyman S. Ayres II, American businessman († 1996)
• 1910 » Georges Vedel, French lawyer and academic († 2002)
• 1911 » Endel Aruja, Estonian-Canadian physicist and academic († 2008)
• 1911 » Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France († 1974)
• 1911 » Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta († 1980)
• 1911 » Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian footballer and coach († 1955)
• 1913 » George Costakis, Russian art collector († 1990)
• 1913 » Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1966)

• 1884 » Victor Massé, French composer (b. 1822)
• 1908 » Jonas Lie, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1833)
• 1920 » Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
• 1927 » Albrecht Kossel, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1929 » Henry Johnson, American sergeant (b. 1897)
• 1932 » Sasha Chorny, Russian poet and author (b. 1880)
• 1935 » Bernard de Pourtalès, Swiss captain and sailor (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (b. 1884)
• 1943 » Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski, Polish actor (b. 1880)

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.
• January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
• April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
• September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
• October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
• December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

The temperature on July 5, 1909 was between 7.6 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.