About the day » Thursday August 12, 1909Calender converter

• Aaltje Kroek, Meppel († 2005)
• Albertina Kühne, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, Brasil († 1971)
• Albertje Veneboer, Steenwijkerwold († 1999)
• Albert Stubbe, Wedde
• Alice Augustine Marie BROERMANN, Laeken,1020,Bruxelles,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE
• Adeleida Gertruda Elisabeth Rongen, Venray-Oirlo († 1977)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Cornelis KNOOP, Rotterdam († 1977)
• Alexander Bernard Anton Köster, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Albertje Veneboer, Steenwijkerwold († 1999)
• Aart Cornelis Wilhelmus Lagendijk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Constance Hilte (58), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Stroucken (53)
• Adriana Gerdina Floor (54), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Charles Thomas Saffery, Sr. (42)
• Arie Albertsz Stam (19), Egmond aan Zee
• Anna Maria Westra
• Angenis Klaasen (78), Assen
• Drost (0), Maurik, Nederland
• Antonie van der Velden (77), Ossendrecht, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Aagje Klaver (73), Opperdoes

• 1906 » Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach († 1985)
• 1906 » Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1907 » Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean physician and politician, 2nd President of Singapore († 1981)
• 1907 » Boy Charlton, Australian swimmer († 1975)
• 1907 » Gladys Bentley, American blues singer († 1960)
• 1907 » Joe Besser, American actor († 1988)
• 1909 » Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman († 1991)
• 1910 » Jane Wyatt, American actress († 2006)
• 1910 » Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore († 1970)
• 1911 » Cantinflas, Mexican actor, screenwriter, and producer († 1993)

• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)

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 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
• March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
• June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
• November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

The temperature on August 12, 1909 was between 9.0 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.