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• Adriana Cornelia de Hoon, Gilze en Rijen († 1980)
• de Rooij, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Bijlevelt, Utrecht († 1934)
• Alice SCHRIPSEMA, Lucas Michigan U.S.A († 2010)
• Adriaan van der Velden, Rilland-Bath († 2012)
• Antonia M. Vos, Linden, Nederland († 2008)
• Anna Maria H. Vos, Linden, Nederland († 1987)
• Albert Riské, Temse, 9140, België († 1977)
• Anna Mackaij, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2000)
• Albert Georges Raymond Emanuel Deruyck, Deerlijk, 8540, Kortrijk, West Vlaanderen († 2009)

• Aaltje Molenaar (85), Zandvoort
• Adriana Cornelia Neering (45), Den Helder
• Annigje Van BUREN (53), Poortugaal
• Annetje van Buren (53), Poortugaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje van de Beek (84), Baarn
• Aafke (Poelema) Poelman (67), Groningen
• Antonius Brabers (21), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje van de Beek (84), Baarn
• Adriana Cornelia Neering, (45), Den Helder
• Augustus Detroit Perkins (2)

• 1909 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English cricketer and politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1977)
• 1909 » Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales († 1987)
• 1910 » Jimmy Murphy, Welsh-English footballer and manager († 1989)
• 1910 » Sylvia Sidney, American actress († 1999)
• 1911 » Rosetta LeNoire, American actress († 2002)
• 1915 » James Elliott, American runner and coach († 1981)
• 1919 » Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor and producer († 2010)
• 1919 » John David Wilson, English animator and producer († 2013)
• 1920 » Jimmy Witherspoon, American jump blues singer († 1997)
• 1920 » Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter and producer († 2006)

• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1920 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)
• 1928 » Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
• 1930 » Launceston Elliot, Scottish wrestler and weightlifter (b. 1874)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Neeltje
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 6.3 million citizens.
• January 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
• January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
• February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
• April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
• July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
• July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.

The temperature on August 8, 1915 was between 13.1 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.