About the day » Monday May 18, 1908Calender converter

• Alice May Sellars, 233, Market Street, Droylsden, Manchester, Lancs († 1993)
• Alida Pieternella Heij, Culemborg (GL) († 1996)
• Alney George Carley, Sayer, OK († 1989)
• Alice Mary Henderson, Masonville, Delaware, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Adriana Van Westrienen, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Maria Koolen, Goirle († 1996)
• Adrienne PRUVOST, Cauchy-À-La-Tour,62260,Pas-De-Calais,Hauts-De-France,FRANCE († 1967)
• Anna Virginia Antonia De Schutter, Hoevenen, Stabroek
• Alwyn Waldron († 1984)
• Aaltje Slagter, Pesse, Ruinen

• Adam Hessel Drielsma (74), Paramaribo, Suriname
• Aaltje Schelling (60), Maasdam
• Anje Mulder (1), Vlagtwedde
• Adriana Sluijs (69), Polsbroek
• Anna Maria Borsboom (50), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Johanna Helmich (44), Baak (Steenderen)
• Aaltje van Dregt (66), Ransdorp
• Barendina Haase (43), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Sluis (69), Polsbroek, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Antonius van den Beld (24), Terwolde

• 1904 » Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York Attorney General († 1986)
• 1904 » Shunryū Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator († 1971)
• 1905 » Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier († 1943)
• 1905 » Ruth Alexander, pioneering American pilot († 1930)
• 1907 » Irene Hunt, American author and educator († 2001)
• 1909 » Fred Perry, English-Australian tennis player and academic († 1995)
• 1910 » Ester Boserup, Danish economist and author († 1999)
• 1911 » Big Joe Turner, American blues/R&B singer († 1985)
• 1912 » Perry Como, American singer and television host († 2001)
• 1912 » Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1992)

• 1889 » Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1941 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)

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 13 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
• March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
• 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.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

The temperature on May 18, 1908 was between 10.1 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.