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• Anna Dorothea VAN STADEN, Onverwacht, Rustenburg District, Limpopo, R.S.A. († 1984)
• Anna Geertrui van de Wardt, Kesteren
• Alijda Anna van Teijlingen, Hazerswoude, ZUI, Nederland († 1930)
• Anne Justus Fahner, Leeuwarden, Nederland († 1911)
• Anna Dimphena Josephina van Vlokhoven, Gestel (Eindhoven)
• Aloysius Josephus Mathildis Vercauteren, Sint-Niklaas († 1978)
• (stillborn daughter) BERKEL, Schiedam (Z.-H.), Neth († 1908)
• * Maria Antonia van Doorn, Veghel
• Anna Adriana Moen, 's-Gravenhage, Nederland († 1984)
• Albert Jan Witteveen, Twello, Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland

• Annetta Catharina Engelina Brouwer (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Haaren (80), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands
• Desire Beernaert (77), Kortemark
• Dina Hendrika Beelen (75), Nunspeet
• Jonker, Heerhugowaard
• Alphonsus Jacobus Maria Bonaventura van Rijckevorsel (51), Vught,Gemeente Vught,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Albertus Oomens (60), Nijmegen
• Auktje Matroos (74), Zoutkamp
• Anna Elisabeth Zinken (65), Sittard, Sittard-Geleen
• Annetta, Catharina, Engelina Brouwer (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1906 » Joan Blondell, American actress and singer († 1979)
• 1906 » Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian mathematician († 1995)
• 1907 » Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist († 1978)
• 1907 » John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company († 1980)
• 1907 » Leonor Fini, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and author († 1996)
• 1908 » Fred MacMurray, American actor († 1991)
• 1909 » Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator († 1968)
• 1910 » Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot († 1944)
• 1912 » Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1912 » Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain († 2011)

• 1879 » John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
• 1886 » Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 » Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
• 1928 » Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 » Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1936 » Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (b. 1886)

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 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
• September 16 » The General Motors Corporation is founded.
• September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
• September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

The temperature on August 30, 1908 was between 9.9 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.