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• A. J. FERGUSON, U.S.A († 1974)
• Alice Young BEALE (TOWN), Roke († 1996)
• Alexander Wesley Bourchier, Kyabram,VIC († 1973)
• Anna Wilhelmina Matthieu, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands
• Aart Adrianus Plomp, Zwijndrecht († 1997)
• Adrianus van den Oetelaar, Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• "Anna Elisabeth" Maria Eugenie Sophie Philomena von Arco auf Valley († 1981)
• Albert Gerardus Hengstman, Almelo († 1952)
• Anna Henriëtte Wilhelmina van Veggel, Leiden († 1996)
• Adriana Roks, Rucphen

• Andrew Todd (77), Geneva, Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada
• Andreas van Poppel (5), Valkenswaard
• Arnoldus Yges Damsma (70), Idaarderadeel
• Berend Jan Hakkert (78), Laren (Gld.)
• Alida Wallenbroek (38), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Bastiaan van Ieperen (82), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Bernardus Bastiaan Van IPEREN (81), 's-Gravendeel
• Arie van der Willik (52), Boskoop
• Apollonia Bernardina Robben (43), Hasselt, België
• Berent Willem Hakkert (78), Laren, Lochem, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1905 » Era Bell Thompson, American journalist and author († 1986)
• 1907 » Su Yu, Chinese general and politician († 1984)
• 1908 » Billy Gonsalves, American soccer player († 1977)
• 1908 » Rica Erickson, Australian botanist, historian, and author († 2009)
• 1909 » Leo Fender, American businessman, founded Fender Musical Instruments Corporation († 1991)
• 1909 » Richard J. Hughes, American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court († 1992)
• 1910 » Guy Mairesse, French race car driver († 1954)
• 1911 » A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian and author († 1993)
• 1911 » Leonidas Andrianopoulos, Greek footballer († 2011)
• 1912 » Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet († 2001)

• 1889 » Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (b. 1831)
• 1890 » John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (b. 1844)
• 1896 » Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (b. 1848)
• 1904 » Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French lawyer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of France (b. 1846)
• 1913 » Johannes Linnankoski, Finnish author (b. 1869)
• 1915 » Henry Moseley, English physicist and engineer (b. 1887)
• 1916 » John J. Loud, American inventor (b. 1844)
• 1918 » Erich Löwenhardt, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
• 1920 » Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician and academic (b. 1835)
• 1929 » Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1878)

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.
• January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
• February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
• February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
• 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.
• April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
• 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 August 10, 1909 was between 10.6 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.