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• Alida(Alie) Everdina Johanna HYDRA, Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Adriaan Johannes van Hooren, 's-Grevelduin-Capelle († 1996)
• Adrianus Johannes van Hooren, Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)
• Abraham Boeter, Oude-Tonge († 1963)
• Adriana Margaretha Kooren, Rotterdam
• Adriana Margareta Kooren, Rotterdam († 1962)
• Aaltje Rijkeboer, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1919)
• Aartje van Ark, Otterlo
• Aartje van Ark, Otterlo
• Albert Johan Eduard van Rabenswaaij, .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname († 1952)

• Barbara Anna Hendrica Baar (54), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (Reintjen) Elisabeth Rutjes (85), Deventer, Nederland
• Aaltje Menger (0), Weststellingwerf, Vinkega
• Anna Catharina van Kessel (0), Alphen aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Lissauer (19), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Idsinga (0), Rotterdam,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Brinkhorst (1), Laag Soeren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Verschuur, Klundert, Nederland
• Antonius Bernardus Karel Verhagen (0), Huissen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Ruurds Potma (63), Workum, Friesland, Nederland

• 1896 » Yip Harburg, American composer († 1981)
• 1900 » Marie Byles, Australian solicitor († 1979)
• 1902 » Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer († 1924)
• 1902 » Maria Maksakova Sr., Russian soprano († 1974)
• 1904 » Hirsch Jacobs, American horse trainer († 1970)
• 1904 » John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1905 » Erwin Keller, German field hockey player († 1971)
• 1905 » Helen Joseph, English-South African activist († 1992)
• 1905 » Joachim Büchner, German sprinter and graphic designer († 1978)
• 1906 » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator († 1974)

• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 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)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Adriana
7. Elisabeth
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Geertruida
13. Petronella
14. Grietje
15. Neeltje
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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
• March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
• April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
• May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
• May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
• May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
• August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The temperature on April 8, 1902 was between -0.5 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%).