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• Aaltje Altena, Gemeente Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 1985)
• Aaltje Middelkoop († 2002)
• Alma Irena RIJCKBORST, Sint Kruis, Sluis-Aardenburg, Zeeland, Netherlands († 2001)
• Andries Beekman, Leiden († 1909)
• Anna Christina Liefveld, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Adriana Josephina Suanet, Tilburg († 1992)
• Adriaan Jobse, Biggekerke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1988)
• Amel Bos, Wormerveer
• Anna (Aaltje) Middelkoop († 2002)
• Geesje Benjamins, Hollandscheveld

• Adriaan Korving (83), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Annigje Hanne Piest (88), Schut, Hoogeveen
• Anna Maria Julia Jansen (78), De Steeg,Gemeente Rheden,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Raman (0), Wetteren
• Anna Helena Veenker (63), Horsten, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Raus (78), Turnhout, België
• Aloijsius Petrus Maria van Eekelen (9), Roosendaal
• Anna Helena Veenker (63), Horsten gem. Onstwedde
• Adrianus Cornelis Verploeg (0), Deil (GD)
• Abraham Carel Stork (61), Assen,Gemeente Assen,Drenthe,Netherlands

• 1903 » Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1903 » Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar († 1990)
• 1905 » Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat († 2007)
• 1907 » Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec († 1960)
• 1909 » Clyde Barrow, American criminal († 1934)
• 1909 » Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian Pastor and Evangelist († 2001)
• 1910 » Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director († 1975)
• 1911 » Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera († 2006)
• 1912 » Dorothy Height, African-American educator and activist († 2010)
• 1915 » Eugène Martin, French racing driver († 2006)

• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
• 1915 » Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)

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 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
• January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
• February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
• 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.
• April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
• December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The temperature on March 24, 1909 was between 0.9 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 8.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.