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• Age Schelwald, Leeuwarden († 1999)
• Adrianus Tak, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1910)
• Aaltje Turkstra, Betterwird, Nederland († 1985)
• Albert Voogdgeert, Enschede
• Adriana Yke Zondervan, Den Haag
• Alexander Voorman, Wortendijke New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1993)
• Adrianus (Aad) Pont, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Krüssel, Abbemühlen, Meppen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1910)
• Alida Jacoba van Kruiselbergen, Amsterdam († 1981)
• Althea Bergsma, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1981)

• Andries Hendriks van der Meulen (72), Gorredijk, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Jacob Hage (69), Zierikzee
• Abraham Adriaan Aurelius Gerard TITSINGH (65), Wageningen,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonia Molenaar (12), Poortugaal
• Adolph Joelsohn (62), Berlin, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany
• Aaltje Strijk (0), Beilen
• Albert Richard Wijchgel (0), Medan, Sumatra, Indonesië
• Albert Kollen (58), Schottershuizen
• Anna Maria Raaijmakers
• Anna Aljes Haverkamp (79), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1906 » Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager († 1984)
• 1906 » John Murray, American playwright and producer († 1984)
• 1906 » Piero Taruffi, Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer († 1988)
• 1908 » Ann Petry, American novelist († 1997)
• 1908 » Paul Engle, American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic († 1991)
• 1910 » Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic († 2013)
• 1910 » Robert Fitzgerald, American poet, critic, and translator († 1985)
• 1911 » Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer († 1987)
• 1913 » Alice Chetwynd Ley, English author and educator († 2004)
• 1914 » John E. Hodge, African-American chemist († 1996)

• 1875 » Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
• 1896 » Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 9th Council President of Denmark (b. 1817)
• 1898 » Calvin Fairbank, American minister and activist (b. 1816)
• 1914 » Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838)
• 1915 » Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
• 1923 » Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1926 » Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838)
• 1933 » John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)
• 1940 » Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Arie
14. Gerardus
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

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. Geertruida
14. Helena
15. Aaltje
16. Neeltje

• 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 5.9 million citizens.
• March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
• April 29 » The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
• August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
• September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
• November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
• December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

The temperature on October 12, 1910 was between 11.3 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.