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• Aaltje van den Berg, Genemuiden
• Adriaan Klompenbouwer, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Pluim, Zwolle († 1909)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Maria Koenekoop, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Kermis, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Vermeulen, Nieuw-Lekkerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1909)
• Adriana Geene, Ridderkerk, Nederland († 1975)
• Abraham van Sligtenhorst, Putten († 1944)
• Aaltjen Oldebeerlink, Radewijk († 1929)
• Abraham Jacob Maan, Schiedam, Nederland († 1964)

• Antonie van Balkom (89), Schaijk, Landerd, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Aaffien KRUIS (66), Schildwolde, Slochteren
• Antonie Hendrik van Couwenberg (72), BruidegomDionisius van Wanrooij
• Aafje OOMS (38), Avenhorn, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aloïs Willem (52)
• Albertus Hermanus van de Van De Beek (1), Heerde
• * Johan Sjudts Schipper (82), Amsterdam
• Anna Cornelia Borrenbergs (1)
• Anetta Jane Schoonover (11)
• Antonie Hendrik Couwenberg (72), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1904 » Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor († 1989)
• 1905 » Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope († 1956)
• 1905 » Tom Driberg, British politician († 1976)
• 1907 » Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator († 1983)
• 1907 » Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer († 1989)
• 1908 » Horton Smith, American golfer and captain († 1963)
• 1909 » Margaret Mee, English illustrator and educator († 1988)
• 1912 » Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1913 » Dominique Rolin, Belgian author († 2012)
• 1913 » Rafael Gil, Spanish director and screenwriter († 1986)

• 1868 » Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
• 1885 » Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1901 » Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)
• 1910 » Jules Renard, French author and playwright (b. 1864)
• 1932 » Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)
• 1933 » Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
• 1938 » William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893)
• 1939 » Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)

• 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 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
• April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
• April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
• August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
• September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

The temperature on May 22, 1909 was between 11.2 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.