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• Albarta Maria Helena Markhorst, Apeldoorn Gld. NL († 1912)
• Albert William Allison, Woolwich, London († 1978)
• Alfred Wurm, Corrina Township († 1936)
• Adriaan Faasse, Westkapelle, Zeeland, Nederland († 1930)
• Alle Delfsma, Meppel († 1994)
• Ange Antoinette RHEMREV, Batavia († 1981)
• Albert Dijkhuizen, Scheveningen
• Hendrik Groote, Tiendeveen
• Antonio Kuhnen, São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1983)
• Anna Elisabeth Knubben, Schin op Geul, Valkenburg aan de Geul, Limburg, Nederland

• Adriana Maria van Loon (0), Tilburg
• Antje Brouwer (74), Texel
• Arendje Klijnstra (58), Sint Nicolaasga, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adriana Maria van Loon (0), Tilburg
• Arendtje Jans Klijnstra (58), St Nicolaasga
• Arendtje Klijnstra (58), Doniawerstal
• Arendje Jans Klijnstra (58), Sint Nicolaasga, Friesland, Nederland
• Clementia Verbrugghe, Sas van Gent
• Anna Marianna Simnoch (67), Klein Bölkau Danzig-Preussen
• Kraaijjestein, Rotterdam

• 1906 » Jacques Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 1960)
• 1906 » Walter E. Rollins, American songwriter († 1973)
• 1907 » Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress († 2004)
• 1907 » Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and author († 1968)
• 1908 » Kid Sheik, American trumpet player († 1996)
• 1908 » Penny Singleton, American actress and singer († 2003)
• 1909 » C. N. Annadurai, Indian educator and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu († 1969)
• 1909 » Phil Arnold, American actor († 1968)
• 1910 » Betty Neels, English nurse and author († 2001)
• 1911 » Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING († 2000)

• 1883 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)
• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1921 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
• 1926 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1930 » Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1882)
• 1938 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900)
• 1940 » William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874)
• 1945 » André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)

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 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
• April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
• May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
• July 26 » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
• November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.

The temperature on September 15, 1908 was between 5.3 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.