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• Adriana J. van der Plas, Katwijk († 1991)
• Aleida Maria Albertusd Klappe, Vollenhove, ov.nld († 1909)
• Alicia NICOLAI, Gorsem,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgi
• Abraham van der Duin, Emmer-Erfscheidenveen, Emmen
• Anje Veenstra, Den Andel, Baflo, Groningen, Nederland († 1981)
• Anna Barbara Schlegel, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Akke Tijseling, Hallum
• Adolphus SEGERS, Bornem,2880,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1909)
• Åke Walter NILSSON, Gullarp-Osby-Kristianstad Län
• Aleida Maria Klappe, Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland († 1909)

• Albertus Nijland (78), Utrecht
• Albertje Klompmakers (0), Mussel, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Antonia van Garderen (76), Woudenberg
• Anna Maria Van Opstal (66), Herselt, België
• van Zetten (0), Nieuw-Beijerland
• Anne Jans van Stralen (53), Leeuwarden (Friesland)
• Adriaan Jeroense (0), Oud-Vossemeer, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Gerritsen (80), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Jans van Stralen (53), Leeuwarden
• Allegonda Slenders, Maarheeze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1902 » Miriam Hopkins, American actress († 1972)
• 1902 » Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist († 1980)
• 1903 » Lina Radke, German runner and coach († 1983)
• 1904 » A. J. Liebling, American journalist and author († 1963)
• 1904 » Haim Shirman, Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic († 1981)
• 1905 » Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire († 1993)
• 1905 » Jan Gies, Dutch activist († 1993)
• 1906 » James Brooks, American painter and educator († 1992)
• 1909 » Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and theorist († 2004)
• 1914 » Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer († 1997)

• 1886 » Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (b. 1796)
• 1889 » Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808)
• 1892 » William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1893 » Charles Gounod, French composer and educator (b. 1818)
• 1908 » Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Alfred Binet, French psychologist and author (b. 1857)
• 1921 » Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847)
• 1934 » Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1935 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)

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 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
• April 1 » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
• June 18 » The University of the Philippines is established.
• 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.
• July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

The temperature on October 18, 1908 was between 5.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 12.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.