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• Alijda van Middelaar, Hoogland
• Adolph Reinhard Zeger VAN RECHTEREN-LIMPURG-SPECKFELD, Dalfsen Overijssel Netherlands († 1962)
• Adriana Francisca Pullens, Baardwijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1993)
• Alida Maria Grund, Rotterdam († 1971)
• Adolph Reinhard Zeger Graaf van Rechteren Limpburg, Rechteren (gem. Dalfsen) († 1962)
• Albertus Christiaan HEERSINK, Westendorp
• Adolf Reinhard Seger graaf van Rechteren-Limpurg-Speckfeld, Dalfsen, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1962)
• Adolph Reinhard VAN RECHTEREN-LIMPURG, Dalfsen, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1962)
• Aleida Dicou, Apeldoorn († 1910)
• Alida Maria Steur, Ursem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Anje Mulder (60), Appingedam, Nederland
• Adriaan Harmszn. Canninga (3), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Engel - Anna Angela Schulte (79), Altenberge, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Anna Geertruida Rengers Hora Siccama (71), Hilversum,Gemeente Hilversum,North Holland,Netherlands
• Aaltje Leek. (55), Hoogwoud
• Anna Maria GUNTHER (77), Maastricht (Limb. Nl)
• Aaltjen Aalbers (84), Dinxperlo
• Adrianus Cornelis Mes (1), Rotterdam
• Adrianus van den Arend (74), Rotterdam
• Anna Francisca van Strydonck (87), Temse

• 1907 » Katharine Hepburn, American actress († 2003)
• 1907 » Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1908 » Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-English economist († 1986)
• 1910 » Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1910 » Gordon Jenkins, American pianist and composer († 1984)
• 1910 » James Dudley, American baseball player, wrestling manager and executive († 2004)
• 1910 » Johan Ferrier, Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of Suriname († 2010)
• 1911 » Charles Biro, American author and illustrator († 1972)
• 1912 » Henry Jonsson, Swedish runner († 2001)
• 1912 » Marshal Royal, American saxophonist and clarinet player († 1995)

• 1876 » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
• 1878 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1884 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
• 1916 » James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1874)
• 1931 » Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Arthur Quiller-Couch, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1863)
• 1944 » Max Brand, American journalist and author (b. 1892)

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.
• January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
• May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
• August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
• September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
• October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
• 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 May 12, 1909 was between 5.0 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.