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• Alberta Cornelia van Dorresteijn, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• * Gooltje de Ronde, Rotterdam († 1994)
• Adriana Catharina Lydia Bouwman († 1998)
• Albert Edward BRYANT, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
• Aaltje van de Steeg († 1987)
• ALPHONSE JAN SILNICKI, LODZ,LODSKI,POLSKA († 1981)
• Mijsbergh, Rotterdam
• Albert Pepping, Borger, Drenthe, Nederland († 1966)
• (Stillborn) KIEVIT, Emmen Drenthe Netherlands († 1908)
• Adriana Anna Steketee, Watergraafsmeer

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• (Stillborn) KIEVIT (0), Emmen Drenthe Netherlands
• Adriana Cort de (78), Tilburg
• anthonia MOL (47), nisse
• Antonia Elisabeth Maria Eijpelaer (3), Teteringen
• Anna Catharina (Johanna Catharina) (Johannes Bastein) Rass (79), Vriezenveen
• Anna Catharina Backs (82), Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aldert Johannes van Zuiden (54), Groningen
• Arend Willem Langenberg (68), Zutphen
• Bergstra (59)

• 1902 » Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York († 1971)
• 1903 » Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1903 » Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar († 1990)
• 1905 » Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat († 2007)
• 1907 » Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec († 1960)
• 1909 » Clyde Barrow, American criminal († 1934)
• 1909 » Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian Pastor and Evangelist († 2001)
• 1910 » Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director († 1975)
• 1911 » Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera († 2006)
• 1912 » Dorothy Height, African-American educator and activist († 2010)

• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
• 1915 » Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)

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 13 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
• March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
• April 1 » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
• August 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
• October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
• November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.

The temperature on March 24, 1908 was between 0.9 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.