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• Adianus Florus Groeneveld, Pernis
• "kind van" Blinkhoff, Velsen († 1908)
• Alice Buescher († 1937)
• Adrianus Plomp, Rotterdam († 1981)
• Adrianus Roza, Heukelum West Betuwe (GL) († 1909)
• Adrianus Floris Groeneveld, Pernis († 1994)
• Adelina Josephina Six, Klerken († 2003)
• Afra Maria Kuijs, Schoorl,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Adrianus de Bot, rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Aaltje Abercrombie, Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland († 1942)

• Cornelis Johannes Kuijpers (64), Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aart Janssen (75), Arnhem
• Christiaan van Wanrooij (63), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Cornelia Joanna Brands (0), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Jacobus (jacobus cornelis) Spierenburg (76), Utrecht
• Charles FRANÇOIS (61), Roubaix, 59512, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Abraham Arnfeld (75), Berlin, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany
• Aaltje van Weringh, Urk
• Ada Margaretha Bakker Korff (78), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Vlot (74), Brandwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1906 » Harold Adamson, American lyricist († 1980)
• 1906 » Jules Ladoumègue, French runner († 1973)
• 1907 » Amedeo Nazzari, Italian actor († 1979)
• 1907 » Lucien Laurent, French footballer and coach († 2005)
• 1907 » Rumer Godden, English author and poet († 1998)
• 1908 » Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist († 1992)
• 1909 » Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer († 1990)
• 1910 » Ambrosio Padilla, Filipino basketball player and politician († 1996)
• 1910 » Dan Blocker, American television actor, played Eric "Hoss" Cartwright on Bonanza († 1972)
• 1911 » Chet Huntley, American journalist († 1974)

• 1896 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 » Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)
• 1911 » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
• 1917 » Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
• 1920 » Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)
• 1922 » Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist and author (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845)
• 1928 » Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and painter (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (b. 1898)
• 1932 » Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1857)

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.
• February 1 » Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
• 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.
• August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
• 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 December 10, 1908 was between 2.9 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.