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• Anna Catharina COX, Lommel, Limburg, België
• Albertha van Gelder, Amsterdam († 1908)
• Adrianus Josephus van Bladel, Tilburg († 1908)
• Adrianus Cornelis Naerebout, Vlissingen († 1982)
• Aart van den Brink, Putten
• ?? van der Most, Rotterdam († 1908)
• Aart Van Den Brink († 1980)
• Anna Vercammen, Herselt (B), België († 1984)
• Andries Jongetjes, Harderwijk
• Antje Zuur, Oude Pekela (gem. Pekela)

• Abraham Ruijl (3), Amsterdam
• Anna Elisabeth Annebetje TAAPKEN (88), Brummen,, Pays-Bas
• Barbara ALTMEYER (68), McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje van der Kaap (0), Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen
• Alida Zuiderwijk (9), Boskoop, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Branca Stad (4), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Gubbels (72), Roermond
• Alida Jacoba Warendorff (80), Rotterdam
• Alida Jacoba Warendorff (80), Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Anton van der Hart (0), Amersfoort

• 1905 » Ray Barbuti, American sprinter and football player († 1988)
• 1906 » Sandro Penna, Italian poet († 1977)
• 1908 » Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian broadcaster († 1988)
• 1908 » Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator († 2010)
• 1908 » Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer († 1975)
• 1910 » Bill Naughton, Irish-English playwright and author († 1992)
• 1912 » Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1993)
• 1912 » Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic († 1961)
• 1913 » Desmond Piers, Canadian admiral († 2005)
• 1913 » Jean Victor Allard, Canadian general († 1996)

• 1900 » Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
• 1904 » Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (b. 1836)
• 1912 » Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1822)
• 1917 » Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1932 » Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (b. 1893)
• 1944 » Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891)
• 1946 » Médéric Martin, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (b. 1875)
• 1957 » Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904)

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.
• March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
• March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
• April 16 » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
• October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
• November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

The temperature on June 12, 1908 was between 11.6 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 13.9 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.