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• Albertje Potze, Onstwedde
• Adriaan Koks, Baarle-Hertog, België († 1987)
• Anna Rafaela Maria van Voorst tot Voorst, Groningen
• Adriaan Koks, Baarle-Hertog,Antwerpen,Belgium († 1987)
• Albertus Franciscus Messchaert, Bandjermassin († 1981)
• Alicia Maria CLEMENT, Hooglede,, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1993)
• Alida Koedooder, Blokker († 1975)
• Aaltje Feenstra, Duurswoude (Opsterland-Friesland)
• * Willem Heijtink, Zaandam († 1997)
• Adolph Reinhard Zeyger graaf van Rechteren Limpurg, Dalfsen,Gemeente Dalfsen,Overijssel,Netherlands,kasteel Rechteren († 1962)

• Bernardus van der Ploeg (55), Geertruidenberg
• Anna Mikalsdatter Snausenvald (28), Vangli, Leksdal, Verdal
• Bernardus Mobron (35), Purmer, Nederland
• Tjakkina Abee (0), Borgercompagnie
• Anna, Maria de La Noy (De La Noij) (73), Arendonk
• Bernardus Mobron (34), Purmer, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Jan Hagedoorn (0), Epe
• Baby Spurrell (0), Pool's Island, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland Labrador, Canada
• Berend Jan Albers (76), Wilp
• Bastiaan van der Esch (14), Zwijndrecht

• 1905 » Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th President of India († 1977)
• 1907 » Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright († 1989)
• 1908 » Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator († 1996)
• 1909 » Ken Darby, American composer and conductor († 1992)
• 1911 » Maxine Sullivan, American singer and actress († 1987)
• 1911 » Robert Middleton, American actor († 1977)
• 1912 » Gil Evans, Canadian-American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1988)
• 1912 » Judah Nadich, American colonel and rabbi († 2007)
• 1913 » Robert Dorning, English actor, singer, and dancer († 1989)
• 1913 » Theo Helfrich, German racing driver († 1978)

• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

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 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
• February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
• February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
• July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
• 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.

The temperature on May 13, 1909 was between 1.6 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.