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• Annetje Oskam, IJsselstein
• Adrianus Hendricus van Lanen, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)
• Maulus, Wouw († 1992)
• Aldegonda Wilhelmina Gerarda van den Hurk, Woensel († 1945)
• Allegonda Wilhelmina Gerarda van den Hurk, Woensel († 1945)
• Anna Maria van Boxel, Ginneken en Bavel
• Abraham Beckers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands († 1942)
• Alma HEAD, Hull, Lincolnshire († 1981)
• Agnes Maria Henriette Willekin, Aken (DL
• Albert de Jong, Enschede, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 1969)

• Anna Goedegebuure (52), St. Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaan Voeten (80), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aalt Van Maanen (83), Amerongen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Eggermont (82), Rosmalen
• Albertus Willem Marinus Vermeer (0), Arnhem
• Anna Gertrudis Neven (83), Kerniel, België
• Aart van Meerveld (49), Boskoop
• Albert Andreas Illmer (57), Bernburg, Germany
• (stillborn son) de JONG (0), Lekkerkerk (Z.-H.), Neth
• Alice Boyle (81), Altaglushan, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland

• 1904 » Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian († 1984)
• 1905 » László Benedek, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer († 1992)
• 1908 » Fritz Fischer, German historian and author († 1999)
• 1908 » Irving Fiske, American author and playwright († 1990)
• 1908 » Rex Harrison, English actor († 1990)
• 1910 » Ennio Flaiano, Italian author, screenwriter, and critic († 1972)
• 1910 » Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods († 2007)
• 1912 » Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer, and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1988)
• 1915 » Henry Hicks, Canadian academic and politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia († 1990)
• 1915 » Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic († 2002)

• 1893 » Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
• 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1895 » Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
• 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
• 1929 » David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)
• 1935 » Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877)
• 1940 » Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and academic (b. 1868)

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.
• February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
• February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• 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 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
• April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
• May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.

The temperature on March 5, 1909 was between -9.4 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -2.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.