About the day » Monday September 14, 1908Calender converter

• * Maria Bernardina Prinsenberg, Rotterdam
• ADRIANUS MARIA APOLONIUS MAAT, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Frans, Havelte († 1998)
• * Izaak Wijnmalen, Delft († 1967)
• Ada Antonia Francisca Donato, Boa Esperança do Sul, São Paulo, Brasil
• Albert Rijkeboer, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Albertus Dijkstra, Ter-Apelkanaal, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Abeltje Soer, Nieuw-Dordrecht, Emmen († 1993)
• Berend Boertien, Hollandscheveld
• Anna Cornelia de Volder, Borgerhout 2140, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1908)

• Adriana Rooij de (64), Haarlemmermeer
• Carolus Josephus Hendrycks (81), Klerken West-Vlaanderen, België
• Alice McLanaghan
• Albertien Kamer (76), Havelte, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna van der Bijl (55), Alkemade, ZUI, Nederland
• Barend Adrianus ROS (68), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bastiaan Maria Kool van Kasteel (78), Brummen
• Adriana de Rooij (64), Haarlemmermeer
• Benjamin Scheirer (72)
• Augustinus Amandus Lacroix (69), Brugge

• 1903 » Mart Raud, Estonian poet and author († 1980)
• 1904 » Frank Amyot, Canadian sprint canoeist († 1962)
• 1904 » Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister († 1957)
• 1907 » Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic († 1986)
• 1909 » Peter Scott, English ornithologist, painter, and sailor († 1989)
• 1910 » Jack Hawkins, English actor and producer († 1973)
• 1910 » Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor († 1982)
• 1910 » Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager († 1999)
• 1910 » Yiannis Latsis, Greek businessman († 2003)
• 1911 » William H. Armstrong, American author and educator († 1999)

• 1879 » Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist and author (b. 1808)
• 1891 » Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter (b. 1817)
• 1898 » William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (b. 1857)
• 1901 » William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
• 1905 » Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (b. 1852)
• 1916 » José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1927 » Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1877)
• 1931 » Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter and educator (b. 1856)
• 1936 » Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1899)
• 1936 » Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878)

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.
• June 18 » The University of the Philippines is established.
• July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
• July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
• September 16 » The General Motors Corporation is founded.
• October 6 » The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

The temperature on September 14, 1908 was between 7.5 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.