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• Adrianus Wilhelmus 't Hoen, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1948)
• Andries ten Cate, Amsterdam († 1989)
• Adriana de Bruijne, Zaamslag († 1909)
• Albert Rachel Jules Cornelis FEYS, Assebroek, 8310, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Abel Wiarda Kooistra, Witmarssum († 1976)
• Aafke Kuiper, Termunterzijl († 1929)
• "Adolphe" Adrien Robert Ghislain Victor Christyn de Ribaucourt, Bruxelles († 1967)
• Anna Maria van Rijen, Ginneken en Bavel
• Bos, Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje Pinkster, Valthermond Borger-Odoorn Drenthe Nederland († 1915)

• Aart van de Bunte (82), Hierden
• de Vos (0), Valthermond (Odoorn)
• Adriana Steeman (82), Watergraafsmeer (Amsterdam)
• Adrianus Willem van Die (1), Ridderkerk
• Agnes Wilhelmina Johanna van Rooijen (0), Vleuten
• Andries van den Berg (37), de Wijk, Drenthe, Nederland
• Agnes Wilhelmina J. van ROOIJEN (0), Vleuten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Augustus van de Vijver (69), Hontenisse
• Albert Arents Stuiver (73), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Laeven (31), Klimmen, Voerendaal

• 1903 » John Williams, English-American actor († 1983)
• 1904 » Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator († 1948)
• 1907 » Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1908 » eden ahbez, Scottish-American songwriter and recording artist († 1995)
• 1908 » Lita Grey, American actress († 1995)
• 1910 » Miguel Najdorf, Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician († 1997)
• 1910 » Sulo Bärlund, Finnish shot putter († 1986)
• 1912 » Kim Il-sung, North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea († 1994)
• 1912 » William Congdon, American-Italian painter and sculptor († 1998)
• 1915 » Elizabeth Catlett, African-American sculptor and illustrator († 2012)

• 1888 » Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (b. 1822)
• 1889 » Father Damien, Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)
• 1898 » Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, New Zealand commander and politician
• 1912 » Victims of the Titanic disaster:
• 1917 » János Murkovics, Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)
• 1927 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1938 » César Vallejo, Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1942 » Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1943 » Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1944 » Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Russian general (b. 1901)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Arie
15. Dirk
16. Antonius

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 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
• October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
• December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
• December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The temperature on April 15, 1909 was between 1.2 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.