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• Adriaan Carel Maria TONINO, Delft,, Pays-Bas († 1970)
• Adrianus van Steen, Etten
• Adriana Johanna (1) Sprangemeijer, Breda († 1909)
• Adrianus van der Heijden, Wintelre († 1908)
• Albertus Rozendaal, Piershil, Zeeland, Nederland
• Afra Vredevoort, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• alida maria van Rossem, Meerkerk
• Aleida Hendrika Ennik, Avereest
• Agnes Nancy Frame, Missouri († 1986)
• Aaltje Bols, Het Haagje, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1909)

• Alberdina Pieters Lassche (1), Zwartsluis
• Anna Magnus (61), SchoenhauserAllee, Berlin, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany
• Anna Augusta Amalia DONNERBERG (74), Sneek, 976, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina van Veen (7), Veldhuizen, Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Jans Pinguele (85), Rijperkerk, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Akke Veenstra (1), Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Alberdina Lassche (1), Zwartsluis
• Alberdina Lassche (1), Zwartsluis, Nederland
• * Marinus van Baardwijk (68), Waalwijk
• Antje Siemons (88), Woldendorp, Groningen, Nederland

• 1901 » Arthur Wirtz, American businessman († 1983)
• 1903 » Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian lawyer and politician, 16th Minister of National Education of Colombia († 1948)
• 1905 » Erich Borchmeyer, German sprinter († 2000)
• 1907 » Dan Duryea, American actor and singer († 1968)
• 1907 » Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1910 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer († 1953)
• 1912 » Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director and manager († 2009)
• 1913 » Jean-Michel Atlan, Algerian-French painter († 1960)
• 1913 » Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association († 2007)
• 1915 » Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower and handball player († 2003)

• 1883 » Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
• 1893 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
• 1921 » Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855)
• 1922 » René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)
• 1923 » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 1931 » Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina (b. 1881)
• 1937 » Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (b. 1876)
• 1939 » Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1903)

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.
• February 1 » Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
• June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
• July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
• November 25 » A fire breaks out on SSSardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.
• November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.

The temperature on January 23, 1908 was between -5.8 °C and -2.8 °C and averaged -4.9 °C. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.