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• Anke Pietje Dorenstouter, Amsterdam
• Aaltje Jans Kroek, Meppel, Nederland
• Aart Cornelis Wilhelmus Lagendijk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van Puijenbroek, Hilvarenbeek
• Albertje Veneboer, Steenwijkerwold († 1999)
• Adeleida Gertrudis Elisa Rongen, Oirlo, Venray († 1977)
• Adeleida Gertruda Elisa Rongen, Oirlo, Limburg, Nederland († 1977)
• Johanna Geertrui Eggink, Doetinchem († 1997)
• Aaltje Kroek, Meppel († 2005)
• Andries de Vries, Assen († 1997)

• Anna Maria Westra
• Antonie van der Velde (77), ,, Ossendrecht, Nederland
• Antoinette Charlotte Elisabeth van Pechpeyrou-Comminges de Guitaut (69), Parijs
• Adriana Gerdina Floor (54), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adelheid Tinger (37), Mettingen, Pruisen, Duitsland
• Christiaan Theodorus Mom (65), Arnhem
• Aagje Klaver (73), Opperdoes
• Anna Hendrika Lelieveld (0), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Geertruida Cornelia Gerrits Warmolts (36), Noord (Hoogeveen)
• Drost (0), Maurik, Nederland

• 1906 » Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach († 1985)
• 1906 » Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1907 » Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean physician and politician, 2nd President of Singapore († 1981)
• 1907 » Boy Charlton, Australian swimmer († 1975)
• 1907 » Gladys Bentley, American blues singer († 1960)
• 1907 » Joe Besser, American actor († 1988)
• 1909 » Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman († 1991)
• 1910 » Jane Wyatt, American actress († 2006)
• 1910 » Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore († 1970)
• 1911 » Cantinflas, Mexican actor, screenwriter, and producer († 1993)

• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)

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 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
• March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
• July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
• August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

The temperature on August 12, 1909 was between 9.0 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.