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• Andrew James Simpson Jr, Brooks County, Georgia († 1961)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Petronella de Leeuw, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Albertus Beks, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Willenborg, Obdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje Hijkoop, Rietveld, Nederland († 1986)
• Aafje Laan, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Achiel Doornaert, Kuurne, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Adrianus Cornelis Meijer, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Fase, Rotterdam († 1910)
• Adriana Willenborg, Obdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Albert Heldoorn (75), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arent Pothof (68)
• Adrianus Koolen (67), Hooge Mierde
• Antonie, Hubertus Horsten (72), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Jacoba Dalhuisen (56), Heerde, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Arendina Jantina Wendt (2), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arentje Ida de Waard (76), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States
• Anna Maria Schellekens (68), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan de JONGE (20), Wolphaartsdijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina Theodora Letschert (2), Amsterdam

• 1906 » Jacques Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 1960)
• 1907 » Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress († 2004)
• 1907 » Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and author († 1968)
• 1908 » Kid Sheik, American trumpet player († 1996)
• 1908 » Penny Singleton, American actress and singer († 2003)
• 1909 » C. N. Annadurai, Indian educator and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu († 1969)
• 1909 » Phil Arnold, American actor († 1968)
• 1910 » Betty Neels, English nurse and author († 2001)
• 1911 » Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING († 2000)
• 1911 » Luther Terry, American physician and academic, 9th Surgeon General of the United States († 1985)

• 1883 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)
• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1921 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
• 1926 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1930 » Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1882)
• 1938 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900)
• 1940 » William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874)
• 1945 » André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)

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 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
• March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
• 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.
• 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 September 15, 1909 was between 8.6 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.