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• Anna Cornelia van Woudenberg, Leiden
• "Claude" Marie Henri Edmond Lauras, Paris († 1925)
• Alcidio de Campos, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil († 1982)
• Anna Geertruida de Vust, Amsterdam NH NL († 1985)
• Agatha Frederika (Grada) Blankestijn, Den Haag
• Anneke Idsdr. Osinga, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1979)
• Anna Maria van der Veldt, Haarlem
• Adriaan de Jong, Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Riewert Bart Drijfhout, Bedum († 1988)
• Adrianus Johannes Cornelius Mommers, Tilburg († 1983)

• Albertus Gerrit Weijenberg (2), Oosterhuizen (Apeldoorn)
• Arie Boer (58), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Gerrit Weijenberg (2), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Verwijmeren (52)
• Amanda A. Kittrell Brown <K 5678 FgcHckryGrvMSBu>3 "Manda" (55), Lauderdale County, Mississippi
• Bernardus Rikhof (56), Losser, 7581, Nederland
• Bouwe Wouters Wouters (67), Rauwerderham
• Annetje Ver Meer (1), Mahaska County-Iowa (USA)
• Baron Warmold Albertinus van der Feltz (44), Ahrweiler, Duitsland
• Adriaan Verheijen (81), Klundert

• 1900 » Jessica Dragonette, American singer († 1980)
• 1903 » Stuart Erwin, American actor († 1967)
• 1905 » Thelma Ritter, American actress and singer († 1969)
• 1907 » Johnny Longden, English-American jockey and trainer († 2003)
• 1911 » Willem Johan Kolff, Dutch physician and inventor († 2009)
• 1912 » Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian lawyer, explorer, and author († 1988)
• 1913 » James Pike, American bishop († 1969)
• 1913 » Jimmy Hoffa, American trade union leader († 1975)
• 1913 » Mel Allen, American sportscaster († 1996)
• 1913 » Woody Hayes, American football player and coach († 1987)

• 1884 » Lydia Hamilton Smith, African-American businesswoman (b. 1813)
• 1885 » Jules Vallès, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
• 1891 » William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (b. 1820)
• 1894 » Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (b. 1814)
• 1901 » Edward Stafford, Scottish-New Zealand educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1819)
• 1910 » Giovanni Passannante, Italian anarchist (b. 1849)
• 1922 » Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Thomas Burke, American sprinter, coach, and lawyer (b. 1875)
• 1930 » Thomas Mackenzie, Scottish-New Zealand cartographer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Carl Correns, German botanist and geneticist (b. 1864)

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.
• March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
• July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
• August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
• November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.
• December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.

The temperature on February 14, 1908 was between -1.2 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.