About the day » Sunday April 5, 1908Calender converter

• Alphonsus (I) Penquet, Graauw en Langendam († 1908)
• Alice KOELIKAMP, Svea, MN († 1997)
• Aaltje HONKOOP, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1995)
• Alida Nieman, Amsterdam († 1971)
• Alberdina Taffijn, Delft
• Adriana Fransina van de Sande, Nieuwerkerk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Leonardus Bernardus Plat, Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Muschett
• Aaltje van Oene, Solingen, Duitsland († 1975)
• Anna Catharina van den BERG, Haaften (Gld.)

• Alfijta Kanis (74), Grafhorst, Nederland
• Anna Maria de Gelder (10), Werkendam
• Alfijta Kanis (74), Grafhorst {OV}
• Allefijta Kanis (74), Grafhorst, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aagda (Agatha) Molhoek (82), Zwolle, Ov, The Netherlands
• Adriana Maria Verhoeven (76), Baarle-Nassau
• Anna Maria Lindeman (71), Amsterdam
• Ann Maria Todd (76), Clay Co, Missouri
• Adriana Maria Verhoeven (76), Baarle-Nassau
• Anna Christina Schermer (76), Curaçao

• 1906 » Albert Charles Smith, American botanist († 1999)
• 1907 » Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai jurist († 2002)
• 1908 » Bette Davis, American actress († 1989)
• 1908 » Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager († 1989)
• 1908 » Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India († 1986)
• 1908 » Kurt Neumann, German director († 1958)
• 1909 » Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer, co-founded Eon Productions († 1996)
• 1909 » Erwin Wegner, German hurdler († 1945)
• 1909 » Giacomo Gentilomo, Italian film director and painter († 2001)
• 1909 » Károly Sós, Hungarian footballer and manager († 1991)

• 1900 » Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)
• 1900 » Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (b. 1832)
• 1901 » Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (b. 1850)
• 1904 » Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (b. 1830)
• 1904 » Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer (b. 1822)
• 1906 » Eastman Johnson, American painter (b. 1824)
• 1914 » Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (b. 1851)
• 1918 » George Tupou II, King of Tonga (b. 1874)

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 21 » New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
• April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
• April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
• 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).
• September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
• November 25 » A fire breaks out on SSSardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.

The temperature on April 5, 1908 was between 2.3 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.