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• Aaltje Heinen, Bunschoten, Utrecht, Nederland († 1908)
• Adriana Ouwehand, Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Albertus Wilhelmus Leonardus Bronswijk, Loosduinen, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1987)
• Adrianus van Berge († 1928)
• Andries VELUWENKAMP, Kampen
• Ana Rosa Builes Montoya († 1944)
• Aleks Sickman, Kloosterhaar († 1984)
• Anna Taschler († 1995)
• Andries Vreugdenhil, Rijswijk, Nederland († 1979)
• Adrianus Matheus Johannes Vervaart, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)

• Aaltje Linzes Boonstra (67)
• Bernardus Antonius Johannes Theodorus Duijnstee (13)
• Catharina Bernardina van Kerkwijk (80), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie van Oort (39), Leerdam
• Antonius Henricus Johannes van Dun (0), Tilburg
• Ale Zondervan (0), 's-Gravenhage
• Antje Cornelia Smit (87), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alegonda Maria van Beurden (5), Gorinchem
• Andreas Jacobus Houps (12), Leiden
• Antoni Jakobus Amama (72), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1899 » Gertrude Berg, American actress, screenwriter and producer († 1966)
• 1900 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist († 1938)
• 1901 » Jean Grémillon, French director, composer, and screenwriter († 1959)
• 1904 » Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician († 1998)
• 1905 » Tekin Arıburun, Turkish soldier and politician, President of Turkey († 1993)
• 1906 » Natalie Savage Carlson, American author († 1997)
• 1908 » Johnny Burke, American songwriter († 1964)
• 1911 » Michael Hordern, English actor († 1995)
• 1915 » Ray Stark, American film producer († 2004)
• 1916 » James Herriot, English veterinarian and author († 1995)

• 1881 » Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Joseph Hergenröther, German historian and cardinal (b. 1824)
• 1891 » Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842)
• 1896 » William Morris, English author and poet (b. 1834)
• 1907 » Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (b. 1835)
• 1911 » Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)

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 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
• March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
• May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
• 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.
• October 14 » The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.

The temperature on October 3, 1908 was between 9.0 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.