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• Alida Maria Elizabeth Schülte, Twenterand(Ov)-Den Ham († 1908)
• Abraham Jacob Vroon, Den Haag
• Adriana Heuverling, Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan de Wit, Willemstad, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands
• Albert Middelbos, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriaan de Wit, Willemstad
• Agnes Theodora Janssen, Batenburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Middelbos, Assen,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Albertus (Albert) Cornelis Berends, Huissen († 1988)
• Abraham van der Veer, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Aaltje Keetman (47), Zuid-Scharwoude, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Cuijpers (0), Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Cuijpers (0), Sittard-Geleen (Geleen) (Limburg)
• Adrianus Gerardus van den Ende (0), Bladel
• aaltje kater (78), zaandam
• Alida Grimm (58), Rotterdam
• Alida Grimm (57), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antoni Lammersen (78), Noord Eschmarke
• Adolphus Theodorus Hageman (67), Clinge
• * Johannes de Ruiter (76), Bunnik

• 1904 » Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader († 1944)
• 1904 » Paul Hartman, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1973)
• 1905 » Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress, singer, and dancer († 2000)
• 1906 » Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam († 2000)
• 1909 » Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot († 1942)
• 1909 » Winston Sharples, American pianist and composer († 1978)
• 1910 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2002)
• 1910 » David Niven, English soldier and actor († 1983)
• 1912 » Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian engineer and academic († 2011)
• 1912 » Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal († 2003)

• 1882 » Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1818)
• 1884 » Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1820)
• 1906 » José María de Pereda, Spanish author (b. 1833)
• 1911 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
• 1920 » John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Pichichi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
• 1932 » Frank Teschemacher, American Jazz musician (b. 1906)
• 1936 » Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (b. 1871)
• 1938 » Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1863)

• 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 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
• March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
• April 8 » H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
• April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
• June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.

The temperature on March 1, 1908 was between -2.5 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.