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• Agatha Maria Warmerdam, Bennebroek, Nederland
• Aletta Jacoba Kiebert, Nieuwveen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1970)
• Alardus Johannes Telleman, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1906)
• Adriana E Hoeboke, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1997)
• Aletta Jacoba Kiebert, Nieuwveen († 1970)
• Adriana Aletta Beek, Driebergen
• * Albert Alderliesten, Hendrik Ido Ambacht († 1980)
• Adrianus Cornelis Twisk, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1971)
• Aalderdina Kostwinder († 1960)
• Abraham Klaasz. Kooiman, Enkhuizen († 1973)

• Aaltje van de Berg (85), Schoterland (Friesland)
• Abraham van den Berge (41), Rotterdam
• Adriana de BAKKER (80), Breda, 3379, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Jacobs Krikke (81), Lemsterland (Frld)
• Aleida Koekoek (57), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Diem (81), Herpt
• Albert Jan Hogeboom (73), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Aaltje Hendriks van den (der) Berg (85), Heerenveen, Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham DE POOL (73), Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands
• Adriana Cornelia Adan (83), Oudenbosch

• 1902 » Felix Wankel, German engineer († 1988)
• 1904 » Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician († 1999)
• 1904 » Margaret Tafoya, Native American Pueblo potter († 2001)
• 1906 » Art Shires, American baseball player and boxer († 1967)
• 1906 » Chuck Carroll, American football player and lawyer († 2003)
• 1907 » Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed Coventry Cathedral († 1976)
• 1908 » Gene Raymond, American actor and pilot († 1998)
• 1911 » William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founded DDB Worldwide († 1982)
• 1912 » Ben Hogan, American golfer and sportscaster († 1997)
• 1912 » Claire Cribbs, American basketball player and coach († 1985)

• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903)

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.
• March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
• June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
• July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

The temperature on August 13, 1906 was between 14.6 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.