About the day » Friday August 9, 1907Calender converter

• Albertus Johannes Balk, Zutphen,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aleida van Enk, Oldebroek, Nederland († 1983)
• Allegonda Franzes, Tönisberg, Kempen, Kreis Viersen, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland († 1980)
• Andries Jacob Willems Heetebrij, Kerkstraat, Vollenhove († 1996)
• Adriana Maria Nagelkerken, Halsteren
• Alphonsus Theodorus Gerhardus Groot Bruinderink, Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aalbregt Klink, Zierikzee, NL († 1909)
• Vermeulen, Nijmegen (GL) († 1907)
• Aleida van Enk, Oldebroek, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland († 1983)
• Adrianus Josephus van Steensel, Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• van, Alkemade,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Geerlings (13), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Helena Josephina Broeckx- (42), Tilburg, Nederland
• Adriana Helena Josephina Broeckx (42), Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord Brabant)
• Adrianus Hendricus Heemskerk (14)
• Anna Berger (91), Breda
• Vermeulen (0), Nijmegen (GL)
• Anna BERGER, BERGÉ (91), Breda, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Aaldering (66), Gendt
• Adrianus Hendricus Heemskerk (14), Warmond, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1901 » Charles Farrell, American actor and singer († 1990)
• 1902 » Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Russian general and politician († 1984)
• 1902 » Zino Francescatti, French violinist († 1991)
• 1905 » Leo Genn, British actor and barrister († 1978)
• 1909 » Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat († 1944)
• 1909 » Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, Indian scholar, author, and academic († 1992)
• 1909 » Willa Beatrice Player, American educator, first Black woman college president († 2003)
• 1911 » Eddie Futch, American boxer and trainer († 2001)
• 1911 » John McQuade, Northern Irish soldier, boxer, and politician († 1984)
• 1911 » William Alfred Fowler, American astronomer and astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate († 1996)

• 1886 » Samuel Ferguson, Irish lawyer and poet (b. 1810)
• 1910 » Huo Yuanjia, Chinese martial artist, co-founded the Chin Woo Athletic Association (b. 1868)
• 1919 » Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer and educator (b. 1857)
• 1920 » Samuel Griffith, Welsh-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Queensland (b. 1845)
• 1932 » John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Edith Stein, German nun and saint (b. 1891)
• 1943 » Chaim Soutine, Belarusian-French painter and educator (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Harry Hillman, American runner and coach (b. 1881)
• 1945 » Robert Hampton Gray, Canadian lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
• 1946 » Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (b. 1876)

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. Arie
16. Gerardus

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.
• January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
• 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.
• September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
• 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 August 9, 1907 was between 15.3 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.