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• Adriaantje van Duuren, Leiden
• Allan Douglas Black, Wellington, New Zealand († 1998)
• Aagje Brak, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Albert FAULLE, Rogny-les-Sept-Écluses (89 Yonne), France
• Albert Boerema, Roderveld, Nederland
• Alida Aagje Trouwborst, Capelle aan de IJssel, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Andries Johannes LAFEBER, Den Helder († 1953)
• Adriana Parijs, Vlijmen († 1908)
• Andries Johannes (Han) Lafeber, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Aagje Brak, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Alexr O Gill (8), Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• Anna Elizabeth van der Roest (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands
• Aart Knijff (71), Utrecht
• Adriana (3) van Dongen (0), Princenhage
• Andries Overeem (0), Utrecht (stad), Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Roos (84), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Anna Maria van Gendt (33), Bokhoven
• Agatha Tjepkema (77), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Adriana van Dixhoorn (76), Breda, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Maria van Gendt (33), Bokhoven, Nederland

• 1904 » John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1905 » Erwin Keller, German field hockey player († 1971)
• 1905 » Helen Joseph, English-South African activist († 1992)
• 1905 » Joachim Büchner, German sprinter and graphic designer († 1978)
• 1906 » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator († 1974)
• 1908 » Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1909 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter († 1983)
• 1910 » George Musso, American football player and police officer († 2000)
• 1911 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic († 1995)
• 1911 » Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)

• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)

• 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.
• 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.
• July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
• 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 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 8, 1908 was between 1.8 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.