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• Anna Cornelia Maria Mas, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1913)
• Angelo Vito Coviello, Dunmore, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1965)
• Alida Jannigje den Hartog, Culemborg (GL) († 2001)
• Andries Lucien Jacob Bruinooge, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria (An) Flaton, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 1992)
• Alberta Evelyn Bergdorf, Olive, Creek, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 2003)
• Aldert van der Plas, Katwijk († 1984)
• Alice Steyvers, St Maria Latem († 1974)
• Aart Rietveld, Lexmond († 1981)
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• Aaltje Johanna Wemelina Brönstrup (0), Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aletta Cornelia Gijsberta van Dam (75), Utrecht
• Arie Roszbach (58), Rotterdam
• Alma Chevrier (6), St-Lazare
• Arie Alberts (1), Deventer,Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• ANDRE - GEORGES VANNESTE (0), Sint Baafs-Vijve, 8710, Flandre occidentale, Belgique
• Antje Hoogerbrug (68), Hazerswoude
• Adriana Smeur (52), Raamsdonksveer, Provincie Noord Brabant Nederland
• Aaltje Johanna Wemelina Brönstrup (0), Dedemsvaart
• Albert Rozema (65), Groningen

• 1905 » Charles Lane, American actor and singer († 2007)
• 1905 » Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer († 1987)
• 1907 » Dimitrios Holevas, Greek priest and philologist († 2001)
• 1907 » Henry Cotton, English golfer († 1987)
• 1908 » Jill Esmond, English actress († 1990)
• 1908 » Rupprecht Geiger, German painter and sculptor († 2009)
• 1908 » Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist († 1997)
• 1910 » Jean Image, Hungarian-French animator, director, and screenwriter († 1989)
• 1911 » Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor († 2002)
• 1911 » Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)

• 1885 » Charles George Gordon, English general and politician (b. 1833)
• 1885 » Edward Davy, English-Australian physician and engineer (b. 1806)
• 1886 » David Rice Atchison, American general and politician (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, One of the first female Indian physicians (b. 1865)
• 1891 » Nicolaus Otto, German engineer, invented the Internal combustion engine (b. 1833)
• 1893 » Abner Doubleday, American general (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Arthur Cayley, English mathematician and academic (b. 1825)
• 1904 » Whitaker Wright, English businessman (b. 1846)
• 1926 » John Flannagan, American priest and academic (b. 1860)
• 1932 » William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded the Wrigley Company (b. 1861)

• 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 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
• February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
• February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
• May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
• December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The temperature on January 26, 1909 was between -8.8 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.