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• Antoon van Doorn, IJsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland († 1927)
• Aleida Johanna Meijerman, Ambt-D'chem († 1992)
• Angeneta Robbe, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Addrianus Wilhelmus Schellevis, Wijk aan Zee en Duin († 1994)
• Abraham Albertus "Bram" Kugel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Anna Catharina Leijdekkers, Fijnaart en Heijningen († 2000)
• Antje Rinkema († 2005)
• Agatha Witte, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 1989)
• Carolus Albert VERMEYLEN, Westmalle, Malle, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1969)
• Baldine Adrienne Cornélie Voûte, Amsterdam († 2009)

• Alida Maria van Zuijlen (39), Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Swiersema (23), Groningen
• Barendina Beumer (91), Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andries ELLEN (1), Vledder, Drenthe, Nederland
• Charles Buziau (62), London, Lambeth
• Adriana Clasina Wilhelmina Willemsd Croese (79), Rotterdam, zh.nld
• Lammert Wever (69), Emmen Drenthe
• Abraham Jan Carel Dhont (33)
• Antonia van de Vossenberg (53), Bakel en Milheeze
• Antonia van den Vossenberg (53), Bakel en Milheeze

• 1912 » Meldrim Thomson, Jr., American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire († 2001)
• 1912 » Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas († 2003)
• 1914 » Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian-Russian physicist and astronomer († 1987)
• 1918 » Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress († 2008)
• 1920 » Douglass Wallop, American author and playwright († 1985)
• 1921 » Alan Hale, Jr., American actor († 1990)
• 1921 » Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter († 1980)
• 1922 » Carl Furillo, American baseball player († 1989)
• 1922 » Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer († 2008)
• 1922 » Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey († 2014)

• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Trijntje

• 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 6.5 million citizens.
• March 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
• March 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
• September 14 » The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
• November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
• November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
• December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

The temperature on March 8, 1917 was between -6.4 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -2.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.