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• Alphonsus Laurijssen, Ulicoten († 1983)
• Adriana Josina Jongeneel, Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianaus Leendert JONGEJAN Jzn, Rotterdam, NL-ZH († 1907)
• Adrianus in't Veld, Rotterdam († 2002)
• Aaltje Nijland, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland, Nederland († 1979)
• Adriaantje Aaltje Mastenbroek, Pernis
• Alma Ann Byrne, Idaho, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana van der Lee, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Adrianus Franciscus Kemner
• Adriana Cornelia van der Velden, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1981)

• Amelie Virginie Cappoen (76), Reningelst
• Antonie Jacobus Hendrikus HULZING (78), Rotterdam
• Alida Maria HOSMAN (62), Edam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie de Kruijk (3), Rotterdam
• Aart Visser (66), Sliedrecht
• Almira Jane Bainbridge (56), Richmond, Cache County, Utah, United States of America
• Antonius van den Berg (73), Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertje Jurjens Huisman (84), Opeinde, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonij Oomen (75)
• Albertje Huisman (84), Smallingerland

• 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.
• February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
• April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
• May 22 » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
• September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
• September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
• November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.

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.