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• Alda PETERSON, Bluffdale, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America († 1961)
• Adrianus Straathof, Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1906)
• Adrianus Franciscus Kemner
• Aaltje Lena de Leeuw, Zegveld,, Utrecht, Nederland
• ADRIANUS VERHOEV, SCHIEDAM († 1977)
• Adriana Catharina Johanna Embregts, Ginneken en Bavel
• Aleida Willemina BERENDSEN, Zelhem, Nederland, Gelderland, Halle
• Aagje van der Velde, Harkema Opeinde, Friesland, Nederland († 1987)
• Alphons Jozephus Parmentier, Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland († 1949)
• Alida Aldus, Deil

• Anna Margaretha Wilken (54), Bartelso
• Adrianus Hendrikus Beijer (76), Den Haag, den Haag, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis van Loon (0), Helmond
• Albertje Huisman (84), Smallingerland
• Almira Jane Bainbridge (56), Richmond, Cache County, Utah, United States of America
• Adrietta Kranenburg (27), Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonie Jacobus Hendrikus HULZING (78), Rotterdam
• Alida Maria HOSMAN (62), Edam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Koning (54), Rotterdam
• Antonius van den Berg (73), Boekel

• 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)
• 1908 » Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1909 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter († 1983)

• 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. Jacobus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacob
12. Dirk
13. Hendrikus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

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

• 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
• August 5 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
• September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
• September 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
• September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
• December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

The temperature on April 8, 1906 was between -1.7 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.