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• Adriaan van der Maas, Wissenkerke (Noord-Beveland), Zeeland, Nederland († 1994)
• "irakly" Bagration-Mukhransky, Tiflis, Georgien, Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken († 1977)
• * Gerdina van der Meijden, Vlijmen († 1994)
• van der Velde, Nijega († 1986)
• Aaltje Mulder, Ermelo
• Andries Cornelis Petersen, Amsterdam († 1971)
• Adrianus Antonius Johannes Hoevenaars, Gilze en Rijen († 1988)
• Alice Helen Gwartney, Kansas City, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1967)
• Adriana Magdalena Moenaert, Loppem
• Albrecht Kok, Surhuisterveen

• Adriana Aartje Bax (0), Haarlemmermeer
• Anna Mechtild Meulenberg (74), Kerkrade, Limburg, Netherlands
• Hoevens (0), Heukelum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agatha Christina Beuker (73), Amsterdam
• Albert Jonkers (62), Zutphen
• Adelaïde Hélène Marie Antoinette Fortunée Rijke (55), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Antje Kornelis Alma (58), Surhuizum
• Antje Kornelis Alma (58), Harkema-Opeinde, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Loozenoord (42), Grand Rapids (Kent, Michigan, USA)
• Adriaan Dieleman (4), Terneuzen

• 1905 » Phyllis McGinley, American author and poet († 1978)
• 1906 » André Filho, Brazilian musician and songwriter († 1974)
• 1906 » Jim Thompson, American businessman († 1967)
• 1906 » John D. Rockefeller III, American philanthropist († 1978)
• 1907 » Zoltán Kemény, Hungarian sculptor († 1965)
• 1909 » Harry Lane, English footballer († 1977)
• 1910 » Julio Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery († 1993)
• 1910 » Muhammad Siddiq Khan, Bangladeshi librarian and educator († 1978)
• 1911 » Walter Lincoln Hawkins, African-American scientist and inventor († 1992)
• 1912 » André Laurendeau, Canadian journalist, playwright, and politician († 1968)

• 1884 » Ezra Abbot, American scholar and academic (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Joseph E. Johnston, American general (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Frederick Winslow Taylor, American golfer, tennis player, and engineer (b. 1856)
• 1920 » Evelina Haverfield, British suffragette and aid worker (b. 1867)
• 1932 » Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (b. 1871)
• 1934 » Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1878)
• 1934 » Lilyan Tashman, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1936 » Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Ali Hikmet Ayerdem, Turkish general and politician (b. 1877)
• 1939 » Evald Aav, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1900)

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.
• March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
• March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
• June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• 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 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 March 21, 1909 was between 5.5 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.