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• Adolfien Klaasse, BanjoeBiroe Salatiga
• Adrianus Cornelis van den Goorbergh, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2001)
• (Stillborn) VON HOHENBERG, Konopischt Castle Bohemia (Czech Republic) († 1908)
• Aikina Petzinger, oude pekela († 1997)
• Abram verhoeff, Amsterdam († 1988)
• Anje Schaaphok, Sint Annen (gem. Ten Boer) († 1991)
• Adolf Jan Mommen, Antwerpen (B) († 1976)
• Adriana Johanna Roijendijk, Mill en Sint Hubert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1948)
• Adriana Engelina Antonia Maria Botermans, Goirle, Gemeente Goirle († 1986)
• Agnes Jervis, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

• Abraham van den Berge (0)
• Ariaantje Punt (52), Haarlemmermeer
• anna catharina huijtjens (76), blerick
• Albert Mulder (56)
• Aaltje van Leeuwen (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje Kamping (55)
• Aaltje VAN DEN BERG (67), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Aloijsius Marie de JONG (0), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Berg van den (67), zaandam
• Aartje Jansen (55), Veenendaal, UT Netherlands

• 1903 » Ary Barroso, Brazilian pianist and composer († 1964)
• 1903 » Dean Jagger, American actor († 1991)
• 1903 » Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1905 » William Alwyn, English composer, conductor, and educator († 1985)
• 1906 » Eugene Carson Blake, American minister and educator († 1985)
• 1908 » Marijac, French author and illustrator († 1994)
• 1909 » Norman Krasna, American director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright († 1984)
• 1909 » Ruby Hurley, American activist († 1980)
• 1912 » Victor Beaumont, German-English actor († 1977)
• 1913 » Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1960)

• 1881 » John MacHale, Irish archbishop (b. 1791)
• 1906 » Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (b. 1842)
• 1907 » Jesús García, Mexican railroad brakeman (b. 1881)
• 1913 » Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English biologist and geographer (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Hugo Haase, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Indian educator and philanthropist (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (b. 1878)
• 1933 » Harold Weber, American golfer and architect (b. 1882)

• 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 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 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
• September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
• November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

The temperature on November 7, 1908 was between -7.6 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.