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• Anna Maria Neijs, Den Haag († 1977)
• anna maria teeuwen, helden († 1927)
• Aletta Maria de Kruijf, Utrecht
• Anna Elva Malcolm, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada († 1964)
• Alle van den Bos, Lippenhuizen, Nederland († 2001)
• Adrianus Cornelis Jansen, Dongen († 1963)
• Adriana van den Bosch, Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• Adrianus van Maren, Gameren
• Anna Josephina Maria Kahmann, Amsterdam († 1998)
• Anna Geertruida Huberdina van der Sloot, Den Haag

• (0), Covington, Kenton, Kentucky
• Agnes van Bennekom (64), Schalkwijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albertje Zwart (71), Bloemendaal, prov. Noord Holland
• AJ VAN KRIEKEN, Oirschot, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Albertje Gleyne Zwart (71), Bloemendaal/Velsen
• Adriana Catharina BAUTZ (64), Dordrecht
• Anna Cornelia van AS (66), Oudenbosch,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Adrianus Petrus van Leeuwen (25), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aletta Hendrika Laubscher (60), Riebeek-Kasteel, South Africa
• Antonetta Huijbrechts, Huibrechts (75), Ginneken en Bavel

• 1904 » Fumio Niwa, Japanese author († 2005)
• 1904 » Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1904 » Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator († 1957)
• 1906 » Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist († 1983)
• 1909 » Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant († 1970)
• 1910 » Mary Jackson, American actress († 2005)
• 1911 » Ralph Guldahl, American golfer († 1987)
• 1912 » Doris Duke, American art collector and philanthropist († 1993)
• 1913 » Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer, and conductor († 1976)
• 1913 » Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player and coach († 2016)

• 1886 » Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (b. 1823)
• 1896 » George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (b. 1859)
• 1900 » Arthur Sullivan, English composer and scholar (b. 1842)
• 1902 » Walter Reed, American physician and entomologist (b. 1851)
• 1913 » Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Jack London, American novelist and journalist (b. 1876)
• 1917 » Teoberto Maler, Italian-German archaeologist and explorer (b. 1842)
• 1919 » Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic (b. 1852)
• 1920 » Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and author (b. 1884)
• 1926 » Darvish Khan, Iranian tar player (b. 1872)

• 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.
• February 1 » Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
• March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
• April 1 » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
• June 18 » Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
• August 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
• October 6 » The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The temperature on November 22, 1908 was between 4.4 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.