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• Toonstra
• Aelze Jansen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1979)
• Aaltje Karmerood, Hengelo
• Abraham Knoop, Bergambacht Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aloisius VAN LOON, Kalmthout, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1996)
• Abraham Johannes Dekker, Poortvliet, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adrianus Joannes Vermeer, Tilburg († 1935)
• Aafje Maria Antonia Degenaar, Rotterdam († 1909)
• Groot, Grootebroek, North Holland, Netherlands († 1908)
• Aaltjen Horst, Horsthoek, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland († 1943)

• Groot (0), Grootebroek, North Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Koenderman (70), Schiedam
• Anna Catharina Struijlaart (88), Hulst,ZL
• Verwoert (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Mecklenburg (33), Rütenbrock, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Adam Spence (78), Jamaica
• ALLEMEKINDERS (0), Kloetinge, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arend Minkman (81), Velp
• Hofkens Guilielmus (78), Merksem, Antwerpen, België
• Adrianus Petrus Claassens (34)

• 1902 » Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed Radisson Blu Royal Hotel († 1971)
• 1904 » Keith Holyoake, New Zealand farmer and politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1983)
• 1904 » Lucile Randon, French Supercentenarian
• 1908 » Philip Dunne, American screenwriter († 1992)
• 1908 » Vivian Fuchs, English explorer († 1999)
• 1909 » Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1909 » Max Baer, American boxer and actor († 1959)
• 1912 » Rudolf Firkušný, Czech-American pianist and educator († 1994)
• 1914 » Josh White, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1969)
• 1914 » Matt Dennis, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2002)

• 1868 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) (b. 1813)
• 1901 » Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)
• 1942 » Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1947 » Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (b. 1884)

• 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.
• 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.
• March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
• 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.
• June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
• November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

The temperature on February 11, 1908 was between 1.2 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.