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• van den Haak, Duisburg, Duitsland († 1998)
• Aloijsia Catharina van Tilborg, Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Agatha Cornelia Hirs, Haarlem (Haarlem), Noord-Holland, Nederland
• * Wilhelmus van Kasteren, Vught
• Adriana Antonia Johanna Pijnenburg, Tilburg († 1976)
• Adrianus Godefridus Snijders, Repelen, D († 1989)
• Amalia Ernestina van der Pot, Leiden
• Abraham Prins, Monster († 1988)
• Albert Helder, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2013)
• Andre Calleeuw, waardamme, Belgique († 1994)

• Antonius Johannes Rustenhoven (13), Apeldoorn(Hoenderlo)
• Andriessen (69)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth van Ooijen (61), Tegelen
• Steenema (0), Utrecht, Nederland
• Andreas de Rijke (77), Haarlemmermeer
• Amandine Pauwels (16), Pollaere
• Berend Brouwer (10), Hattem
• berendiena koers (66), wijk bij duurstede
• Antonius (Margaretha) Brocatus (1), Nieuw Vossemeer
• Anna Theresia Lepelman (58), Rotterdam, ZH Netherlands

• 1911 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic († 1995)
• 1911 » Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1912 » Alois Brunner, Austrian-German SS officer (d. 2001 or 2010)
• 1912 » Sonja Henie, Norwegian-American figure skater and actress († 1969)
• 1914 » María Félix, Yaqui/Basque-Mexican actress († 2002)
• 1915 » Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer († 2007)
• 1917 » Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer († 1988)
• 1917 » Hubertus Ernst, Dutch bishop († 2017)
• 1917 » Lloyd Bott, Australian public servant († 2004)
• 1917 » Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist († 2007)

• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Antonius
14. Arie
15. Wilhelmus
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. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
• April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
• July 18 » The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
• August 4 » In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
• September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
• September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
• December 14 » Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The temperature on April 8, 1914 was between 4.6 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.