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• Alida TAMMES, Sheldon O'Brien County Iowa U.S.A († 1945)
• Anthonius Engelbertus van der Laan, Ter Aar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alphons Desire Johannes Vanbrabant, Lommel († 1964)
• Adriana Huijs, Overschie, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Alexander Veltman, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Ana Francisca de Barros Brotero, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 1941)
• Adriaan Molenaar, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alfred Edmund Reich, Dąbrówka Wielka, łódzkie, Polen
• Adriaan SIMONSE, Biggekerke
• Alida Leonarda van Velzen, Leimuiden († 1941)

• Abraham van Wijk (75), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ariaantje Francis (60), Hoogwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Wolthuizen (0), Wassenaar
• Bertus van der Zande (0), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ann Bissell - nee - Harpham (89), Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Auguste Eugène Baudry (54)
• Antonia Janssen (42), Valburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alexander Jan van Guldener (64), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arie Cornelis van Dijk (47), Ingen (Buren) 10
• Aaltje Schipper (54)

• 1903 » Greta Keller, Austrian-American singer and actress († 1977)
• 1903 » Tunku Abdul Rahman, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia († 1990)
• 1906 » Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography († 1968)
• 1909 » Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist († 2012)
• 1911 » Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and author († 1979)
• 1913 » Betty Field, American actress († 1973)
• 1913 » Danai Stratigopoulou, Greek singer-songwriter († 2009)
• 1914 » Bill Finger, American author and screenwriter, co-created Batman († 1974)
• 1915 » Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French singer, dancer, and actor († 1997)
• 1918 » Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager († 2003)

• 1907 » Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1910 » Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, Irish hereditary peer (b. 1828)
• 1915 » François Langelier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1838)
• 1921 » George Formby Sr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857)
• 1932 » Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)

• 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 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
• 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.
• March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
• July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
• September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

The temperature on February 8, 1909 was between -5.1 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.