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• Alphonse Roelink, Meppel († 1983)
• Aaltje Blok, Zwollerkerspel (Gem. Zwolle) († 1990)
• Adriana de Ridder, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna den Boestert, 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Alexander Schaap, Amsterdam († 1926)
• Andreas Van Der Loop, Zeeland († 1908)
• Albertus Franciscus (Bert) Lafeber, Gouda († 1958)
• Aaltje Van Duin, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Albert Jan Willem Ente, Borne († 1955)
• Aaltje Smink, Haskerdijken, Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1912)

• Adrianus Hak (70), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (53), Haarlemmerliede, Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, North Holland, The Netherlands
• antje vroom (89), monnickendam
• Adrianus Rijsdijk (1), IJsselmonde
• Agata de Back (56), Wolphaartsdijk
• Aaltje van den Brink (0), Nijkerk
• Adriaan Polak (82), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• * Neeltje van Wijk (40), Alphen
• Adrianus Ooms (70), Hoorn,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius van den Heuvel (37), Ravenstein

• 1902 » Heinz Rühmann, German actor († 1994)
• 1903 » Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist († 1970)
• 1904 » Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater († 1969)
• 1904 » Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer († 1942)
• 1908 » Anna Magnani, Italian actress († 1973)
• 1910 » Will Glickman, American playwright († 1983)
• 1911 » Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Indian modern poet, journalist and author († 1987)
• 1911 » Stefan Kisielewski, Polish libertarian writer and politician († 1991)
• 1912 » Adile Ayda, Turkish engineer and diplomat († 1992)
• 1913 » Dollard Ménard, Canadian general († 1997)

• 1897 » Harriet Ann Jacobs, African American Abolitionist and author (b. 1813)
• 1904 » Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828)
• 1913 » Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (b. 1861)
• 1920 » Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866)
• 1928 » Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (b. 1851)
• 1932 » Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1934 » Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)
• 1938 » Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, 116th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
• 1947 » Lucy Parsons, American communist anarchist labor organizer (b. c 1853)
• 1949 » Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (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 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
• April 1 » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
• May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

The temperature on March 7, 1908 was between 2.3 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.