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• Achiel Van Damme, Zarren († 1981)
• Alfred Boudewijn van der Wal, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Bijl, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Alphonsus John Klukowski, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1971)
• Adrianus Zwaans, Waspik († 1989)
• Adriana Both, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Nederland († 2002)
• Adriana Zwemmer, Zandvoort
• anna francisca (ennie) spee, born († 1969)
• Alvin LeRoy Loving, New Boston, Mercer, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1949)
• Anna Catharina Maria van Daalen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Albertha Scheel (21), Montfoort
• Aletha Bos (85), de Bilt, Netherlands
• Albertha Scheel (21), Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Clasina Maria Van Gameren (82), Tiel, Gemeente Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Christiaan van den Brink (91), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Bernardus Jonkers (3), Oorderen
• Andries Markus (88), Loosduinen
• Cornelia de Bruijn (46), Asperen, GD, Nederland
• Antonius Nefkens (88), Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van de Riet (78), Etten-Leur

• 1898 » Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress († 1981)
• 1902 » Miriam Hopkins, American actress († 1972)
• 1902 » Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist († 1980)
• 1903 » Lina Radke, German runner and coach († 1983)
• 1904 » A. J. Liebling, American journalist and author († 1963)
• 1904 » Haim Shirman, Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic († 1981)
• 1905 » Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire († 1993)
• 1905 » Jan Gies, Dutch activist († 1993)
• 1906 » James Brooks, American painter and educator († 1992)
• 1909 » Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and theorist († 2004)

• 1886 » Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (b. 1796)
• 1889 » Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808)
• 1892 » William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1893 » Charles Gounod, French composer and educator (b. 1818)
• 1908 » Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Alfred Binet, French psychologist and author (b. 1857)
• 1921 » Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847)
• 1934 » Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1935 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)

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.
• February 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
• March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
• March 15 » Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
• April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
• June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
• December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

The temperature on October 18, 1906 was between 7.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.