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• Agatha Johanna Maria Eligia Gribling, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2009)
• Alice Marie Gregoire, Hamoir, BE, Belgium († 1989)
• Baudouin comte de Hemricourt de Grunne, La Roche-en-Brenil (Côte-d'Or) († 2011)
• Anthony de Ronde, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1921)
• Anna Maria van Roozendaal, Gilze Rijen († 1995)
• Anna Maria HABEX, Genk (Limburg) (B) († 1999)
• Arets, Kerkrade († 1917)
• Albert BERGHMANS, Mol Belgie († 1983)
• Alida Margaretha Maria van Eeden, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bearl Bearl Green, Rison, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten († 1985)

• Carolus Augustinus Petrus Dellaert (74), IJzendijke, Nederland
• Adrianus Stam (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Jacobus Meijer (1), De Kwakel
• Anna Elisabeth Vleugels (81), Sittard-Geleen (Geleen) (Limburg)
• Albert LANDSMEER (56)
• Anna Maria Vis (62), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Adriana Elisabeth Cornelia Florentine Mulert (69), Zwolle,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Artie Priscilla Bastin (59), Casey County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus Hubertus Besselink (0), Steenderen
• Christiaan MUIJEN, VAN (64), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1914 » Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre († 2001)
• 1914 » Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople († 1991)
• 1915 » N. V. M. Gonzalez, Filipino novelist, poet, and writer († 1999)
• 1917 » Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator († 2009)
• 1918 » Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1919 » Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and author († 1992)
• 1919 » Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter and academic († 2014)
• 1921 » Dinko Šakić, Croatian concentration camp commander († 2008)
• 1921 » Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor († 2001)
• 1922 » Sid Caesar, American comic actor and writer († 2014)

• 1894 » Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1909 » Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player (b. 1853)
• 1916 » Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1836)
• 1933 » Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
• 1935 » Carl Weiss, American physician (b. 1906)
• 1940 » Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (b. 1903)
• 1944 » Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (b. 1881)
• 1949 » Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (b. 1864)

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. Arie

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.
• April 2 » World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
• June 5 » World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
• September 14 » The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
• November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
• December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
• December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

The temperature on September 8, 1917 was between 13.2 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.