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• Afien Gerritdina Dijkstra, Winschoten († 1996)
• Anna Catharina Vanden Eynde, Lommel,Limburg,Vlaanderen,Belgi√´
• Adriana Paulina de Jong, Leiden
• Anna Janna Dieleman, Axel, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherland
• Angenita Margaretha Bakkenes, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Baafje van Voorst († 1995)
• Aartje Beek, Barneveld
• Aartje Beek, Ermelo
• Bongers, op zee
• Adolf van der Giessen, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)

• Aron Hes (80), Oss
• Aaron Hes (80), Oss
• Aaron Hes (80), Oss
• Albert Alberts ter Stege (1), Lekkerkerk
• Antonetta Maas (93), Breda, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Alfred Everitt Murray (76), East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Adriana de Kieviet (82), Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Andriessen (47), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia Everdina Van der Leeuw (72), Rijnsburg
• Adriana Kooijman (31), Vianen, Zuid Holland, Netherlands

• 1904 » Sharkey Bonano, American singer, trumpet player, and bandleader († 1972)
• 1905 » J. William Fulbright, American lawyer and politician († 1995)
• 1906 » Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor and composer († 1988)
• 1906 » Hugh Gaitskell, British politician and leader of the Labour Party († 1963)
• 1906 » Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress († 1996)
• 1906 » Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French painter († 1997)
• 1908 » Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter († 1980)
• 1909 » Robert Helpmann, Australian dancer, actor, and choreographer († 1986)
• 1910 » Abraham A. Ribicoff, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services († 1998)
• 1912 » Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic († 1997)

• 1876 » Charles Goodyear, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
• 1889 » Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist and academic (b. 1786)
• 1909 » Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Raymond Whittindale, English rugby player (b. 1883)
• 1917 » James Hope Moulton, English philologist and scholar (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Hans Fruhstorfer, German entomologist and explorer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1855)
• 1940 » Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (b. 1865)

• 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 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 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
• February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
• April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
• May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
• December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

The temperature on April 9, 1909 was between -3.1 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.