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• Aaltje Dirkmaat, Broek op L'dijk († 1910)
• Anna Willemina van der Lugt, Zoelen
• Adriana Allegonda Clasina de Graauw, Waspik, Provincie Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1991)
• Aleida Stoffer, Ermelo († 1909)
• Adriaan Cornelis Bloem, Vlieland
• Albertus Johannes Voorhorst, Enschede, Gemeente Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 1993)
• Anneke Dirkje Vervoorn, Haaften (GD) († 1968)
• Adriana Maria Christina Van Gestel, Turnhout († 2001)
• Annichje Meijer, Mantinge, Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland († 1995)
• Alice Pieters, Philippine, Zeeland, Nederland

• Adriana Baks (69), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Arij Gorzeman (74), Rozenburg, 3181, Nederland
• Alida Peekel (1), Zaandam, Nederland
• Amanda Alvira Dock (63)
• Anna Maria Janssens (33), Tilburg
• Adrianus Minne, van der (82), Dordrecht
• Anna Josephina Frederika Zijlemans, Vught
• Adrianus Verschuren (38), Teteringen Noord Brabant (NL)
• Adriana Baks (69), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berend Bakker (49), Hollandscheveld (Hoogeveen)

• 1900 » Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress († 1978)
• 1900 » Rhea Silberta, Yiddish songwriter and singing teacher († 1959)
• 1900 » Richard Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright († 1976)
• 1900 » Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada († 1991)
• 1902 » Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author and screenwriter († 1989)
• 1903 » Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent († 1957)
• 1907 » Alan Wheatley, English actor († 1991)
• 1908 » Irena Eichlerówna, Polish actress († 1990)
• 1912 » Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)
• 1913 » Ken Carpenter, American discus thrower and coach († 1984)

• 1893 » Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (b. 1817)
• 1901 » Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
• 1903 » Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820)
• 1906 » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1906 » Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
• 1909 » Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
• 1926 » Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)

• 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 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
• April 1 » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 26 » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

The temperature on April 19, 1908 was between -0.2 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.