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• Alexander Anthony Gustav Adolf VON WELSBURG, Woollas Hall Eckington Worcestershire England U.K († 1945)
• Adriana Catharina Bernaards, Halsteren
• Agine Afina HUISMAN, Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Netherlands († 1999)
• Adrianus Petrus van Etten, Monster
• Adrianus Veenman, Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van Dongen, Raamsdonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1908)
• Adriana den Butter, Streefkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Serné
• Adriaan judocus Serier, Wemeldinge († 1990)
• Afra Wilhelmina Vink, Noordwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1950)

• Artie OVERKAMP (56), Pella,Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Barbera Jacoba Pieternella Mortelmans (56), Rotterdam
• Anna Luise Agnes Scheel (54), Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• antje luurs (77), dokkum (friesland)
• Ann Griffin (63), 17 Powell Street, Aston, Warwickshire, England
• Agnes van Hoorn (27), 's-Hertogenbosch (N.Br)
• Achille Murat Willis (80), Beaver, Beaver, OK, United States
• Abraham van Noortwijk (79), Schiedam
• Arie van den Brand (78), Rotterdam
• van Dongen (0), Raamsdonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1905 » Arthur Lake, American actor († 1987)
• 1905 » Louis Jean Heydt, American journalist and actor († 1960)
• 1906 » Sidney Garfield, American physician, co-founded Kaiser Permanente († 1984)
• 1909 » Alain Poher, French politician, President of France († 1996)
• 1910 » Evangelos Averoff, Greek historian and politician, Greek Minister of Defence († 1990)
• 1910 » Helenio Herrera, French footballer and manager († 1997)
• 1910 » Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter and producer († 1999)
• 1911 » Hervé Bazin, French author and poet († 1996)
• 1911 » Lester Rodney, American soldier and journalist († 2009)
• 1912 » Marta Eggerth, Jewish-Hungarian-American actress and singer († 2013)

• 1882 » George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet (b. 1810)
• 1888 » E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (b. 1821)
• 1892 » Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
• 1921 » Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Laurence Ginnell, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1944 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer and coach (b. 1867)

• 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.
• June 18 » Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
• 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.
• August 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
• September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
• November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
• December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.

The temperature on April 17, 1908 was between 1.8 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.