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• Aaltje Reuvekamp
• ANNA LEZER, Rotterdam
• Aaldert de Jonge, Barger-Oosterveen Emmen Drenthe Nederland († 1943)
• Anna Maria Sophia Bekers, Antwerpen, België († 1910)
• Adriaan de Koeijer, Zaamslag (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Wisse, Ritthem († 1907)
• Adriana Cornelia Wisse, Ritthem, Zeeland, NL († 1907)
• Anna Maria Francisca VAN BERLAER, Antwerpen, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Anna Maria van Aalst, Berghem
• Alois Senden, Remscheid (D) († 1991)

• Arie Storm (0), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Coenraad Marinusz Moerland (76), Stavenisse Zl
• Adriana Kastelein (58), Amsterdam Nhl. NL
• Antonius Johannes Hutten (0), Raalte
• Cornelia Oostveen (0), Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexandre Joseph Baudry (70), Havinnes, 7531, Belgie
• Aaltje van Norden (71), Doorn
• Coenraad Moerland (76), Stavenisse,Gemeente Tholen,Zeeland,Netherlands
• Agardus Marinus van Soest (63), 's-Gravenhage
• Abigail S. Hoopes (86), West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania

• 1905 » Robert Elton Brooker, American business executive († 2000)
• 1906 » Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter († 1963)
• 1906 » S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American academic and politician († 1992)
• 1908 » Beatrice Aitchison, American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist († 1997)
• 1908 » Lupe Vélez, Mexican-American actress and dancer († 1944)
• 1908 » Peace Pilgrim, American mystic and activist († 1981)
• 1909 » Andrei Gromyko, Belarusian-Russian economist and politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1989)
• 1909 » Bishnu Dey, Indian poet, critic, and academic († 1982)
• 1909 » Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress († 1994)
• 1909 » Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan († 1978)

• 1884 » Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)
• 1890 » Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
• 1892 » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
• 1899 » Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1916 » Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)
• 1937 » Julian Bell, English poet and academic (b. 1908)
• 1938 » Marie of Romania (b. 1875)

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.
• June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
• September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
• October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
• November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
• December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
• December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

The temperature on July 18, 1906 was between 11.8 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.