About the day » Thursday July 2, 1908Calender converter

• Anna Diepenbroek, Wisch
• Alexienne Leenen, Sint-Truiden, België
• Ada Vanderwall -Visser, Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1941)
• Alina Catharina Alphonsina Develter, Beveren-aan-de-IJzer, West Flanders, Belgium
• Adrianus Zevenbergen, Rotterdam
• Anna Gerarda van Geest, Monster
• Antonia Fambach, Amsterdam (Noord-Holland), Nederland († 1985)
• Anna Hendrika Gesina Wolters († 1908)
• Aagje Ziel, Vollenhove, ambt († 1996)
• Aartje van Maren († 1983)

• Albertje Kooij (67), Avereest, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Antje Jacobs van der Mey (92), Ameland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Helena Theresia Iwes (52), Den Haag,-
• Antje Jacobs Van Der Mey (92), Hallum, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anje Wolters BUUR (74), Roodeschool (Uithuizermeeden) Groningen Netherlands
• Almeda Sabra Lake (83), Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Rietberg (37)
• Alice Briant ASHDOWN (96), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Brunekreef (57), Utrecht
• Arie van Beelen (0)

• 1902 » K. Kanapathypillai, Sri Lankan author and academic († 1968)
• 1903 » Alec Douglas-Home, English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1995)
• 1903 » Olav V of Norway († 1991)
• 1904 » René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt († 1996)
• 1906 » Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1906 » Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler († 1996)
• 1906 » Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner († 1993)
• 1908 » Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States († 1993)
• 1911 » Reg Parnell, English race car driver and manager († 1964)
• 1913 » Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic († 1999)

• 1903 » Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
• 1912 » Tom Richardson, English cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1914 » Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1836)
• 1915 » Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1830)
• 1920 » William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
• 1926 » Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1872)
• 1955 » Edward Lawson, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1873)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
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. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
• January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
• March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
• April 16 » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
• November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
• November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.

The temperature on July 2, 1908 was between 11.7 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 15.5 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.