About the day » Saturday May 9, 1908Calender converter

• Alfredo Benetti, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil
• Albertus Wilhelmus van Brummelen, Beuningen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1979)
• Adrinana Blom, Noordgouwe
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Johannes Pullens, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Angeline Gramser, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• anna christina steeghs, meijel († 1908)
• Abraham Johannes van Dorp, Vlaardingen,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1978)
• Abraham Johannes van Dorp, Vlaardingen († 1978)
• Anna Antonia Machielse, Klundert, Nederland
• Adrianus Jan Mensch, Zierikzee, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Nederland

• Hijzelendoorn, den haag
• Rubingh (0), Musselkanaal
• Baby Byrne (0), Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States of America
• Antonetta Vermeulen (57), Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriana_Maria Peeters (49), Weelde
• Arie Meijer (1), Ede
• Bernardus Petrus Henricus Severins (0), Oosterhout
• Anna Catharina VAN DER KELEN (85), Pamel
• Aafke Eisses Eissens (51), Siddeburen, gemeente Slochteren
• Aafke Eissens (51), Siddeburen

• 1904 » Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator († 1988)
• 1905 » Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist († 1998)
• 1906 » Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator († 1988)
• 1907 » Baldur von Schirach, German politician († 1974)
• 1907 » Jackie Grant, Trinidadian cricketer († 1978)
• 1907 » Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and author († 1976)
• 1909 » Don Messer, Canadian violinist († 1973)
• 1909 » Gordon Bunshaft, American architect, designed the Solow Building († 1990)
• 1911 » Harry Simeone, American music arranger, conductor, and composer († 2005)
• 1912 » Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor († 1963)

• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)

• 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 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
• January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
• April 11 » SMSBlücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
• May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
• June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

The temperature on May 9, 1908 was between 9.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.