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• Alida(Aal) Zwaan
• Adriana Cornelia van der Wal, Groot-Ammers, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Kuckelkorn, Heerlen, Gemeente Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Christina Lucassen, Horst
• Aaltje van Eersel († 2006)
• Aagje Meester, Wervershoof,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Petrus Everstein, Monster
• Adelina Thiesen, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1939)
• Albert Rowe Jones, Longhope, Gloucestershire, England († 1908)
• Aartje Meijers, Breukelen Sint Pieter

• Antonia van den Oorschot (65)
• Antonius Kleijngeld (72), Dinther
• Bernarda Alida Pouw (0), Sloten, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Brita Lisa Jonsdotter (89), Frostviken, Jorm
• Antonia van Oorschot (65), Bergen op Zoom, Noord Brabant, nederland
• Asje van Weeghel (89), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Antonia van Oorschot (65), Bergen op Zoom
• Alfred Honoré GAMBLIN GAMBLIN (77), Claye-Souilly, 77, Seine et Marne, Ile-de-France, France
• Barbara Pieters van Driezum (67), Pella, Marion
• Arnoldus Marinus van Gameren (68), Nijmegen, Gemeente Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1901 » Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer († 1968)
• 1901 » Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter († 1999)
• 1903 » Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and educator († 1970)
• 1906 » Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer († 1975)
• 1906 » Phyllis Pearsall, English painter, cartographer, and author († 1996)
• 1906 » Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist, and music critic († 1962)
• 1908 » Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1910 » Ralph Jordan, American football player and coach († 1980)
• 1911 » Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago († 1981)
• 1914 » John Manners, English naval officer and cricketer († 2020)

• 1893 » Louise von François, German author (b. 1817)
• 1900 » Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Canadian journalist and politician, 11th Premier of Québec (b. 1832)
• 1900 » John M. Palmer, American general and politician, 15th Governor of Illinois (b. 1817)
• 1901 » Arthur Fremantle, English general and politician, Governor of Malta (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French educator and politician (b. 1853)
• 1917 » Thomas Ashe, Irish Republican Brotherhood volunteer, and rebel commander (b. 1885)
• 1918 » Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Herbert Booth, English songwriter and bandleader (b. 1862)
• 1928 » Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (b. 1863)
• 1929 » Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)

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.
• April 1 » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
• April 11 » SMSBlücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
• July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
• 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.
• November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

The temperature on September 25, 1908 was between 10.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.