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• Adriaan Anthonie Baardse, Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertje de Jonge, Nieuwe Pekela († 1984)
• Adriana Pieternella van der Werf, Scherpenisse
• Alida Maria Stolwijk, Montfoort Utr († 2001)
• Adolphe Edouard Delzainne, Maastricht († 1917)
• Adrianus Hendrikus Zandbergen, 's Gravenhage († 1975)
• Sikke Kornelis Venema, Solwerd gem. Appingedam
• Albert Grady Arnold, Bell Buckle, Tennessee († 1940)
• Aaltje Westenberg, Vroomshoop, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aletta (Aleta) van Tintelen, Maurik (Buren-Gl) († 1995)

• Antonie BONOUVRIƒ (1), Hagestein
• Armand Maria Joseph Hubertus Antoon de Guasco (45), Aachen (D)
• Adriana Beljaars (0), Zwaluwe
• Antje Hartog (72), Jisp, Nederland
• Alstje Mulder (52), Groningen
• Atte Oenes Veldman (83), Oldeboorn
• Anna Cornelia van den Heuvel (0), Vlissingen
• (56), Aalzum
• Arend Bennink (49), Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland
• (levenloos) van den Bos (0), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 1910 » Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence († 2000)
• 1911 » Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpet player († 1989)
• 1912 » Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author († 1989)
• 1912 » Francis Schaeffer, American pastor and theologian († 1984)
• 1912 » Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic († 1988)
• 1914 » David Wayne, American actor († 1995)
• 1914 » John Ireland, Canadian-American actor and director († 1992)
• 1914 » Luc-Marie Bayle, French commander and painter († 2000)
• 1915 » Joachim Peiper, German SS officer († 1976)
• 1915 » John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War († 2006)

• 1881 » Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (b. 1844)
• 1889 » Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary (b. 1858)
• 1926 » Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1928 » Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1929 » La Goulue, French model and dancer (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Frederick Blackman, English botanist and physiologist (b. 1866)
• 1948 » Arthur Coningham, Australian air marshal (b. 1895)
• 1948 » Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule (b. 1869)
• 1948 » Orville Wright, American pilot and engineer, co-founded the Wright Company (b. 1871)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Jacob
11. Adrianus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Arie
15. Antonius
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
• February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
• February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
• April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
• July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
• December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

The temperature on January 30, 1909 was between -1.0 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.