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• Age Noorbeek, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1974)
• Albert Cant, Temse, België († 1937)
• Airs Amelia P Enriquez, Yavapai, Arizona, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Andreas Gerardus Duivenvoorden, Lisserdijk († 1975)
• ALICE MAE HILL, Georgia († 1991)
• Adriana Timmers, Naaldwijk († 1982)
• Aagje Alebregtse, Puttershoek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Alberta Lee Baxter, Milton, Rutherford County, Tennessee († 1997)
• Anna Catharina Magdalena Peeters, Dessel, België
• Anthonia Francisca Maria van Schaik, Delft,Delft,Zuid-Holland,Nederland

• Alma E Woolley (21), Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
• Alida Dongelmans (0), Leiden
• Alfred Marie Charles de DONNEA de FOLOGNE (69), Tongeren,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgi
• Almeda Coffman (64), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America
• Andries Groeneveld (72), Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adriaan van Wezel (71), Gilze en Rijen, Nederland
• Adolf Jansen (65), Doetinchem-Ambt
• Aäron van der HORST (54), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriaan van Wezel (71), Gilze en Rijen
• Alfred Urban Sartoris (82)

• 1904 » Erika Morini, Austrian violinist († 1995)
• 1904 » Jeane Dixon, American astrologer and psychic († 1997)
• 1906 » Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist and academic († 1978)
• 1907 » Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete († 1969)
• 1908 » George Dolenz, Italian-American actor († 1963)
• 1909 » Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-American sculptor, painter, and photographer († 1995)
• 1909 » Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician and computer scientist († 1994)
• 1910 » Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and journalist († 1949)
• 1911 » Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1914 » Nicolas de Staël, Russian-French painter and illustrator († 1955)

• 1883 » Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)
• 1933 » Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896)

• 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.
• 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.
• April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
• April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
• August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
• October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
• December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

The temperature on January 5, 1909 was between -0.2 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.