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• Anna Antonia Josephina de Lepper, Tilburg
• Aldert Schaap († 1986)
• Bakker, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albartha Everarda Johanna Vis, Amersfoort
• Cornelisse, Amsterdam († 1974)
• Albertus Sibon-, Odoorn, Nederland († 1908)
• Abraham Brinkman, Beilen († 1968)
• Aaltje Wietses KLUNDER, De Waarden (Grijpskerk) Groningen Netherlands
• Adrianus Johannes Petrus Stegemeijer, Velsen, Gemeente Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• * Johanna Theodora Pas, Acht († 1974)

• Adriana Matze (70), Rotterdam
• Albert Alberts Hetebrij (0), Zutphen
• Aaltje de Kruif (72), Utrecht
• Adriana Antonia Maria Post (0), Maasland
• Anna Apolonia Hommes (78), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna Margretha Singels (63), Dordrecht
• Anna Margritha Singels (63), Dordrecht
• Adrianus Matze (101)
• Adriana Willemsd Donker (61), Rotterdam, zh.nld
• Alexander Brodie (16)

• 1902 » Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint, founded Opus Dei († 1975)
• 1902 » Rudolf Bing, American impresario and businessman († 1997)
• 1907 » Earl W. Renfroe, African American orthodontist, educator, and activist († 2000)
• 1907 » Eldred G. Smith, American patriarch († 2013)
• 1908 » Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author († 1986)
• 1909 » Anthony Mamo, Maltese lawyer and politician, 1st President of Malta († 2008)
• 1909 » Patrick Peyton, Irish-American priest, television personality, and activist († 1992)
• 1910 » Tom Evenson, English runner († 1997)
• 1912 » Ralph Tubbs, English architect, designed the Dome of Discovery († 1996)
• 1913 » Richard Nixon, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 37th President of the United States († 1994)

• 1895 » Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American-English businessman (b. 1812)
• 1901 » Richard Copley Christie, English lawyer and academic (b. 1830)
• 1908 » Abraham Goldfaden, Russian actor, playwright, and author (b. 1840)
• 1908 » Wilhelm Busch, German poet, illustrator, and painter (b. 1832)
• 1911 » Edvard Rusjan, Italian-Slovene pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1911 » Edwin Arthur Jones, American violinist and composer (b. 1853)
• 1917 » Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist (b. 1853)
• 1918 » Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844)
• 1923 » Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Sri Lankan civil servant and politician (b. 1853)

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.
• April 16 » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
• May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
• August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
• August 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
• November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.

The temperature on January 9, 1908 was between -2.9 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.