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• Adriana Ida Marianne Vredevoogd, Groningen
• Adrianus Josephus joannes Neomagus († 1983)
• Aloijsius Joseph van den Heuvel, Utrecht
• Alys "Alice" Eringa, South Dakota († 1996)
• Antje Doef, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• anna uriot, amsterdam († 1980)
• Allie L Cummings, Burnet, Burnet, Texas, United States († 2002)
• Alberta Hendrika Hurenkamp, Klarenbeek, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1993)
• Albertus Gezinus Exoo, Almelo
• (Stillborn) BOUWES, Obergum (Winsum) Groningen Netherlands († 1908)

• Almira Louise Greene (72)
• Anna Maria Lucia Wichers (76), Zuidwolde
• Alida Henkelman (50), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annagien Veenstra (63), Steenwijk in Huis Staande Buiten de Oosterpoort
• Arend Zwiggelaar (0), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Lucia (Marianne) Wichers Wiechers (76), Zuidwolde
• Anne Arjens de Jong (42), Oudega (Sma)
• Annie Clayton Lindley (43), Bradfield, Berkshire, England
• Annegien Veenstra * (63), Steenwijk
• Arend Zwiggelaar (0), Enschede

• 1904 » Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian poet and politician († 1981)
• 1905 » Conrad Heidkamp, German footballer and manager († 1994)
• 1906 » Jim Thompson, American author and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1906 » Sergei Varshavsky, Russian art collector and author († 1980)
• 1906 » William Empson, English poet and critic († 1984)
• 1907 » Bernard Miles, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1911 » Marcey Jacobson, American-Mexican photographer († 2009)
• 1913 » Albert Ellis, American psychologist and author († 2007)
• 1916 » S. Yizhar, Israeli academic and politician († 2006)
• 1917 » Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist († 2010)

• 1886 » Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Ivan Goncharov, Russian author and critic (b. 1812)
• 1898 » Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (b. 1860)
• 1911 » Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1915 » Remy de Gourmont, French novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1858)
• 1917 » Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (b. 1834)
• 1919 » Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (b. 1843)
• 1921 » Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Alan Gray, English composer and organist (b. 1855)

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 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
• June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
• September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
• November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
• November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.

The temperature on September 27, 1908 was between 5.0 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.