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• Adrianus van den Beukel, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Franciscus van Iersel, Tilburg († 1985)
• Allegonda Maria den Boer, Zwaluwe
• Anna Hubertina HEKKENS, Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland († 1914)
• Anna Hendrina Lammers, Budel († 1970)
• Allegonda Maria den Boer, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1988)
• Anna Diek († 1990)
• Kool, Everdingen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1911)
• Adolfina Ettina Bos, Oude Pekela, Pekela, Groningen, Nederland († 1911)
• Mittertreiner, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Agnes Wilhelmina Maria Gommans (0), Helden
• Anna Maria Nijssen (0), Kerkrade (L
• Adrianus van TILBURG (79), Bergen Op Zoom (N. Br. Nl)
• Agnes Wilhelmina Maria GOMMANS (0), Helden, Limburg, Netherlands
• Mittertreiner, den haag
• Arie Voorwinden (66), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Jacobus van Vessem (75), Amsterdam
• Albertus Jacobus van WESSEM (75), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Christina Vriesekoop (0), Haarlemmerliede, Gem. Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Ariezoon Voorwinden (66), Rotterdam, Nederland

• 1909 » Glenn Cunningham, American runner and academic († 1988)
• 1910 » Anita Page, American actress († 2008)
• 1910 » Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter and photographer († 2011)
• 1910 » William Schuman, American composer and educator († 1992)
• 1912 » Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer († 1999)
• 1912 » David Raksin, American composer and educator († 2004)
• 1912 » Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish architect and diplomat († 1947)
• 1913 » Johann Niemann, German lieutenant († 1943)
• 1913 » Robert Hayden, American poet and educator († 1980)
• 1913 » Wesley Addy, American actor († 1996)

• 1886 » Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (b. 1814)
• 1900 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and educator (b. 1860)
• 1914 » Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (b. 1853)
• 1919 » Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1845)
• 1922 » Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (b. 1881)
• 1932 » Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (b. 1868)
• 1938 » Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1940 » Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1883)
• 1942 » Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1860)

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. Gerardus
14. Arie
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
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 6.0 million citizens.
• January 12 » The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
• May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
• September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
• September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
• November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
• December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The temperature on August 4, 1911 was between 11.4 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.