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• Antko Kaman, Winschoten († 1970)
• Bartha Tiemens († 1977)
• Adrianus Carolina Bruurs, Baarle Hertog (Belgie) († 1969)
• Bernardus Hendrikus Meijer, Slagharen († 1919)
• Albert Crommen, Romershoven († 1989)
• Albert Robert Walcott, Battle Creek (Calhoun), Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1980)
• Arnold Adriaan Stuurman, Venlo († 2002)
• Aat van LIEMPT, Sloten,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Bernard Ellis Anderson, Bedford, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States
• Antonius Josephus SIMONIS, Leiden, ZH, Nederland († 1940)

• Adriana Petronella BOLLE (75), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana de Herder (1), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Schram (65), Rotterdam
• Amalia Caroline Gasparine Leopoldine Henriëtte Louise Elisabeth F Prinses van Fürstenberg (69), Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg
• Anngje Okken (62), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands
• Adrianus Dungen van den (61), 's-Hertogenbosch Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van den Heuvel (85), Gemert, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Roest (1), Haarlem,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Wiertsema (11), Groningen
• Anna Helena Baylé (56), franeker

• 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)
• 1922 » Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1922 » Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and director († 2003)

• 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. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Albert
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Johan

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

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
• August 30 » Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
• August 31 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
• October 10 » RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.
• October 29 » The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
• November 13 » World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
• December 1 » Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.

The temperature on March 8, 1918 was between -1.3 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.