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• Aaltje Jelles Bakker, Urk, Gemeente Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1981)
• Aaltje van de Wal, Haulerwijk (Ooststellingwerf) († 1947)
• Adrianus Gerardus Heijne, Veur (nu Ldm) († 1945)
• "Emmanuel" Marie Joseph Colas des Francs, Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France († 1985)
• Adrianus Cornelis van der Lubbe, Potriefque Chili
• Aafke Pieters Talma, Rinsumageest († 1997)
• Aagje Haverkamp, Putten
• Aaltje (Oale) "Kloetebessien" Bakker, Urk († 1981)
• Verheyen Anna Cornelia, Turnhout, Antwerpen, België († 2004)
• * Maria Margaretha Johanna Suntjes, Heythuysen

• Anna Smit (82), Haarlemmermeer
• Aafje Vos (85), Utrecht
• Albert Gray (0), Kempsey, Kempsey Shire Council, New South Wales, Australia
• Albert van der VEEN (75), Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands 7941
• Baijens (0), Hoeven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alberdina Kamphuis (29), Dedemsvaart
• Andries Scholten (21), Giethoorn,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriaan Dek (79)
• Aafje Pieters Vos (85), Utrecht
• Anna Christina Reijrink (40), Groenlo

• 1906 » Manuel Silos, Filipino filmmaker and actor († 1988)
• 1907 » Kinue Hitomi, Japanese sprinter and long jumper († 1931)
• 1909 » Dana Andrews, American actor († 1992)
• 1909 » Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician († 1959)
• 1911 » Audrey Wurdemann, American poet and author († 1960)
• 1911 » Basil Dearden, English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1971)
• 1911 » Hank Greenberg, American baseball player († 1986)
• 1911 » Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist and educator († 2012)
• 1912 » Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician and historian († 1995)
• 1912 » Kim Philby, British spy († 1988)

• 1881 » Louis Auguste Blanqui, French activist (b. 1805)
• 1892 » Roswell B. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 25th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1894 » Heinrich Hertz, German physicist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1896 » Alfred Ely Beach, American publisher and lawyer, created the Beach Pneumatic Transit (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Hugh Nelson, Scottish-Australian farmer and politician, 11th Premier of Queensland (b. 1833)
• 1918 » William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet and author (b. 1858)
• 1921 » Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Mustafa Necati, Turkish civil servant and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (b. 1874)

• 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 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
• February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
• February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
• April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
• April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
• August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The temperature on January 1, 1909 was between -6.4 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.