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• Adriaan van Stee, Yerseke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Joanna Margaretha Maria Marinus, Tilburg
• Adriana Maria van de Nouweland, Gilze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1983)
• Anna Cornelia Henrica Maria Simons, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1997)
• Alexis Willem Peters, Spijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1975)
• Adrianus Antonius VAN DER TOGT, Den Haag, Provincie Zuid-Holland, PAY,-, PAY
• Albert Viswat, Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Schipper, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Janssen, Overasselt,, Gelderland, Nederland († 2001)
• Adrianus Jacobus Baremans, Terheijden († 1987)

• Albertus Woudenberg (51), Amersfoort
• Antje van Dam (77), Egmond-Binnen
• Antonie van de Griend (64), Hedikhuizen, NL
• Adriaan van de Panne (0), Ellemeet, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antje Kentie (26), Hoogblokland, Gemeente Molenlanden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Albertus D. Nauta (44)
• Antje Rienks Piersma (74), Groningen
• Antonie van der Star (79), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Wilhelm Dekker (6), Dordrecht
• Albertus Waijenberg (1), Anklaar (Apeldoorn)

• 1902 » Harry Kadwell, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1999)
• 1903 » Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer († 2003)
• 1904 » Hubert Opperman, Australian cyclist and politician († 1996)
• 1905 » Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright († 1994)
• 1906 » T. H. White, Indian-English author († 1964)
• 1907 » Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician († 2002)
• 1908 » Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1910 » Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician († 1978)
• 1913 » Tony Zale, American boxer († 1997)
• 1914 » Stacy Keach Sr., American actor († 2003)

• 1896 » Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and academic (b. 1814)
• 1903 » Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 » W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (b. 1853)
• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1917 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 » Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
• 1921 » Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and educator (b. 1849)

• 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.
• 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.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.
• 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.
• December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.

The temperature on May 29, 1908 was between 10.1 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.