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• Adolf Van Der Merlen, Zwijndrecht († 1987)
• Alberta Helena van Merm, Gendt, Gelderland, Nederland († 1981)
• Aartje Aartsen, Hoenderloo († 2002)
• Adriana Maria van Dijk, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Francken
• Adrianus Bouwmeester († 1973)
• Anna Luijendijk, Rockanje
• Alfred Henri Fred Ferguson, Curacao, Nederlandse Antillen († 1991)
• Adrianus Schot, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertha Janna ter Avest, Hellendoorn († 1932)

• Augustus Charles Edward HILL (69)
• Alida TUINKER (85), Vrijenban,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Hendriks van der Grond (65), Strijen
• Anna Maria Van Rompaey (36), Austruweel, Provincie Antwerpen
• Celine Celina Maandag (49), Amsterdam
• Anthonius Gerardus van Raaphorst, Haarlem
• Anna Maria Borchert (72), Hengelo (Ovl)
• Adriana Cornelia van der Grond (65), Strijen
• Adriana Melieste (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Margaret Schmidt (65), Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio

• 1902 » Margaret Hamilton, American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist († 1985)
• 1904 » Robert Livingston, American actor and singer († 1988)
• 1905 » Dalton Trumbo, American author, screenwriter, and blacklistee († 1976)
• 1906 » Freddy Martin, American bandleader and tenor saxophonist († 1983)
• 1906 » Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL († 1992)
• 1909 » Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American captain, actor, and producer († 2000)
• 1911 » Broderick Crawford, American actor († 1986)
• 1911 » Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese colonel and businessman († 2007)
• 1912 » Jim Turnesa, American golfer († 1971)
• 1912 » Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1994)

• 1887 » Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese religious leader
• 1906 » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (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 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
• January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
• April 16 » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
• October 1 » Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
• December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.

The temperature on December 9, 1908 was between 3.8 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.