About the day » Wednesday June 5, 1907Calender converter

• Albert Jan Wesselink, Laren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Dictus, Rucphen
• Anton de Vries, Amsterdam († 1972)
• Aaltje Bunt, (GL) Nijmegen
• Adriaan Anthonie Boot, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje van den Berg, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1997)
• Aloijsius Joannes Henricus Norbertus Jansen, Tilburg († 1991)
• Anthonius Houniet, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1909)
• Adriana van Loon, Gouda
• Agnes HUIZENGA († 1999)

• Aafje Keuken (73), Volendam Nederland
• Winters (0), Werkhoven, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aloiuisius Lambertus van Wanrooij (0), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia van Rooij (67), Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Benedito de Oliveira (0), Cotia, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Hofman (79), Scharmer, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Hottinga (56), Opsterland
• Haikens (0), Nieuw-Buinen
• Berendina van Overbeek (29), Epe
• Coleta Vonk (69), Stoppeldijk, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1898 » Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoe designer, founded Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. († 1960)
• 1899 » Otis Barton, American diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere († 1992)
• 1899 » Theippan Maung Wa, Burmese writer († 1942)
• 1900 » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1902 » Arthur Powell Davies, American minister, author, and activist († 1957)
• 1905 » Wayne Boring, American illustrator († 1987)
• 1912 » Dean Amadon, American ornithologist and author († 2003)
• 1912 » Eric Hollies, English cricketer († 1981)
• 1913 » Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic († 2000)
• 1914 » Beatrice de Cardi, English archaeologist and academic († 2016)

• 1899 » Antonio Luna, Filipino general (b. 1866)
• 1900 » Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1871)
• 1906 » Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (b. 1842)
• 1910 » O. Henry, American short story writer (b. 1862)
• 1913 » Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (b. 1851)
• 1916 » Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish-born British field marshal and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Rhoda Broughton, Welsh-English author (b. 1840)
• 1921 » Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
• 1921 » Will Crooks, English trade unionist and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (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. Wilhelmus
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Arie

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

• 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 5.6 million citizens.
• February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
• June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
• July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
• August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
• October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
• October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.

The temperature on June 5, 1907 was between 8.4 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.