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• Aaltje Margaretha Jungerius, Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Manroh, Nieuw-Buinen (Borger) († 1909)
• Adriana Sjaan Jeanne van Diemen, Leiderdorp († 2005)
• Agatha Puiman, Texel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1987)
• Albert Lucas, Nieuw Schoonebeek, Nederland († 1991)
• Adriana Frijters, Princenhage
• Adriana Poppelaars, Ginneken en Bavel
• Alberdina Anthonia Maria Prein, Delft († 1910)
• Albertus Wilhelmus de Wit, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Hurkmans, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1995)

• Aukje Bijma (12), Buitenpost, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aleida Elsiabeth op de Meen Vossebeld (0), Hengelo
• Aaltje Rekers (72), Nunspeet
• Cornelia Renner (geb. van Zon) (73), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina VOLKERZ (47), Steenwijk
• Cornelis Poot (63), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Johanna Buijs (61), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus ter Mors (68), Losser, Overijssel, Nederland
• Catherine Murphy (54), Hamilton, Victoria, Australia
• Adrianus Leonardus de Vetten (29), Den Haag

• 1904 » Harvey Penick, American golfer and coach († 1995)
• 1905 » Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1905 » Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer († 2003)
• 1905 » Yen Chia-kan, Chinese lawyer and politician, President of the Republic of China († 1993)
• 1908 » František Douda, Czech shot putter († 1990)
• 1908 » Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1990)
• 1909 » Zellig Harris, American linguist and methodologist († 1992)
• 1910 » Hayden Rorke, American actor († 1987)
• 1910 » Richard Mortensen, Danish painter and educator († 1993)
• 1911 » Jack Keller, American hurdler († 1978)

• 1885 » Charles S. West, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (b. 1829)
• 1893 » Alexander of Battenberg (b. 1857)
• 1910 » Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853)
• 1915 » W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
• 1917 » Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
• 1921 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)
• 1935 » Charles Demuth, American painter and educator (b. 1883)
• 1939 » Zane Grey, American dentist and author (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Ralph Rainger, American pianist and composer (b. 1901)

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.
• January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
• June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• 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.
• December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The temperature on October 23, 1909 was between 8.8 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.