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• Alida Burgerhout, Rotterdam († 1974)
• Adriana M. Lewiszong († 1992)
• Annigje Langemaat, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland († 2008)
• Adriana Johanna Wouters, Lage Mierde
• Anna MariaCathrna Zandbergen, Noordwijk († 1912)
• Antonie Hendrik Leenard Dingelhoff, Valburg (gelderland) Nederland
• Adriana Maatje de Vries, Goes
• Anna Maria Scheuven, Schaesberg, Limburg, Nederland († 1994)
• Antje Ietses Stokroos, Niebert († 1977)
• Anna Nijborg, Anloo, Aa en Hunze, Drenthe, Nederland († 1996)

• Debora Daniel Henriques Coelho (66), 's Gravenhage
• Alice Geneva Harrington (3), Jasper County, Mississippi, United States of America
• Anna Alexandrina Garcia (70), Aririu,Palhoca,SC,Brasil
• Catharina Gerarda Maria van den Berg (0), Monster
• Clasina Alberta van Zaal (1), Heemstede
• Bernardus Johannes Klein Gebbinck (74), Groenlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albartha Wilhelmina Hempenius (86), Ermelo, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Bernard Albert - Bernard Wilken (69), Germantown, Clinton, Illinois, United States
• Aaltje Sieben (35), Amsterdam
• Alexander Josephus Reggers (0), Maastricht

• 1906 » Joan Hickson, English actress († 1998)
• 1906 » John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1908 » Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia († 1967)
• 1908 » Jose Garcia Villa, Filipino short story writer and poet († 1997)
• 1910 » Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and manager († 1979)
• 1910 » Herminio Masantonio, Argentinian footballer († 1956)
• 1911 » Robert Taylor, American actor and singer († 1969)
• 1912 » Abbé Pierre, French priest and humanitarian († 2007)
• 1914 » Parley Baer, American actor († 2002)
• 1916 » Peter Viereck, American poet and academic († 2006)

• 1895 » Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1901 » Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1840)
• 1904 » George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1834)
• 1911 » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864)
• 1916 » George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885)
• 1921 » Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
• 1929 » Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)
• 1933 » Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1935 » David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891)
• 1939 » Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
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 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
• April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
• September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
• October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
• December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
• December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

The temperature on August 5, 1912 was between 10.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.