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• Aaltje Slomp, Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Agge Duivens, Alkmaar († 1994)
• Aaltje Martijntje Nooteboom, Puttershoek, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1967)
• Aafje West, Enkhuizen
• Annechien Middeljans, Nieuw-Buinen, Borger († 1985)
• Agnes Elviere Eveline (Eef) Falkenberg, Semarang († 1987)
• , Sinaai, Sint-Niklaas, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1989)
• Antje Heuvel, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Aloisius ANDRIESSEN, Essen, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Alma L. Boyd Gilmore, Horry County,South Carolina († 1993)

• Christina Gerarda Verbon (0), Utrecht
• Abraham Warren CARLTON (39), Ft Worth
• Aris Romijn (77), Naarden
• Adriana de Jong (52), Harmelen
• Albertina Gabriel Coopmans (0), Herenthout, België
• Anton Redmers Sachtjen (43), Danforth,Iroquois Country,Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Christina Polderman (40), Koudekerke 34
• Adrianus STERK (38), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina Peek (70), Hagestein
• Anna Wilhelmina Peek (70), Hagestein, Nederland

• 1901 » Arleigh Burke, American admiral († 1996)
• 1903 » Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor († 1971)
• 1907 » Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader and composer († 1962)
• 1908 » Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer († 1981)
• 1909 » Marguerite Perey, French physicist and academic († 1975)
• 1910 » Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher († 1980)
• 1910 » Shunkichi Hamada, Japanese field hockey player († 2009)
• 1910 » Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1913 » Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, playwright, and composer († 1980)
• 1914 » Juanita Moore, American actress († 2014)

• 1889 » Luís I of Portugal (b. 1838)
• 1897 » George Pullman, American engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company (b. 1831)
• 1901 » Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish businessman and philanthropist, founded GN Store Nord (b. 1829)
• 1905 » Virgil Earp, American marshal (b. 1843)
• 1916 » Ioannis Frangoudis, Greek general and target shooter (b. 1863)
• 1918 » Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1924 » Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1895)
• 1936 » Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (b. 1881)
• 1937 » Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1943 » Camille Claudel, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1864)

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 21 » New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
• April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
• June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
• July 26 » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.
• December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.

The temperature on October 19, 1908 was between 0.7 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.