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• Anna Cornelia Catharina van Oevelen, Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Albert Ubels, ,, Steenbergen, Roden, Groningen, Netherlands († 1984)
• Anna Simonis, Kerkrade (L († 1910)
• Adrianus (Janus) Cornelis Plompen, Zwijndrecht, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1988)
• Agatha Cornelia Maria van der Heyden, Velsen
• Aakt Elzerman, Oldebroek (Wezep),, Gelderland, Nederland († 1997)
• Alice Maria Amondine van Gils, Leuven in België
• Aart Vergeer, Amsterdam († 1977)
• Anna Johanna Sterk, 's-Gravenhage (Zuid-Holland)
• Louwdijk, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1909)

• Adolf De Hertog (0), Kortrijk, 8500, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Aleida Elisabeth Maria Theunissen (0), Groesbeek, NL
• Berendina Gores (74), Pannerden, Nederland
• Aaltje (Cornelis-dochter) Cornelisdr Wijnker (66), Hensbroek, Nederland
• Bernardus Hamers (79), Tllburg (N.Br.)
• Berendina Huisman (74), Pannerden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina Verhoeven (63), Driel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina Gores (Huisman) (74), Pannerden
• Amanda Nikolina* Matiasdotter (44), Domkyrkoförs I Gbg (O)
• Aafke Hendriks ROSENBERG (44), St. Annaparochie (Het Bildt) Friesland Netherlands

• 1899 » Gertrude Berg, American actress, screenwriter and producer († 1966)
• 1900 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist († 1938)
• 1901 » Jean Grémillon, French director, composer, and screenwriter († 1959)
• 1904 » Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician († 1998)
• 1905 » Tekin Arıburun, Turkish soldier and politician, President of Turkey († 1993)
• 1906 » Natalie Savage Carlson, American author († 1997)
• 1908 » Johnny Burke, American songwriter († 1964)
• 1911 » Michael Hordern, English actor († 1995)
• 1915 » Ray Stark, American film producer († 2004)
• 1916 » James Herriot, English veterinarian and author († 1995)

• 1890 » Joseph Hergenröther, German historian and cardinal (b. 1824)
• 1891 » Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842)
• 1896 » William Morris, English author and poet (b. 1834)
• 1907 » Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (b. 1835)
• 1911 » Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1936 » John Heisman, American football player and coach (b. 1869)

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.
• February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
• April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
• 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.
• September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
• September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

The temperature on October 3, 1909 was between 8.3 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.