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• Aloisius Augustinus Hendricus van Vugt, Besoyen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• van der Lee, Katwijk aan Zee († 1909)
• Adriana Alblas 9, Utrecht († 1997)
• Albertus Franciscus Adrianus Grondel, 's-Gravenhage († 1960)
• Ligtvoet, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Joseph WOLF, Den Haag († 1942)
• Albert Rizzo, California († 1996)
• Agatha Margaretha Willemina de Jong, 's-Gravenzande († 2003)
• Aloysius "Alex" Kujawa, Chicago Cook Illinois († 1936)
• Albert Derk Weenk, Arnhem, Nederland († 1949)

• Aart HAK (39), Poederoijen
• Anna Margarita Nelis (74), Raamsdonk
• Aloysia van Waldstein-Wartenberg (76)
• Adriana (Ariaantje) Butter (79), krimpen aan den IJssel
• Anna Margaretha Nelis (74), Raamsdonk, Provincie Noord Brabant Nederland
• Anna Sibilla Hubertina Goossens (81), Venlo
• Akke Willems HOEKSTRA (64), Ferwerderadiel Friesland Netherlands
• Anna Hubertina Catharina WOLFHAEGEN (78), Wessem, 6019, Maasgouw, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Materman (65), Velp (Rheden)
• Amy Putnam CRAM (85), Amherst, New Hampshire, Verenigde Staten

• 1905 » Jacques Goddet, French journalist († 2000)
• 1905 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author († 1980)
• 1908 » William Frankena, American philosopher and academic († 1994)
• 1910 » Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Russian poet and author († 1971)
• 1911 » Irving Fein, American producer and manager († 2012)
• 1912 » Kazimierz Leski, Polish pilot and engineer († 2000)
• 1912 » Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic († 1989)
• 1912 » Vishnu Prabhakar, Indian author and playwright († 2009)
• 1913 » Luis Taruc, Filipino political activist († 2005)
• 1913 » Madihe Pannaseeha Thero, Sri Lankan monk and scholar († 2003)

• 1874 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
• 1876 » Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (b. 1794)
• 1880 » Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844)
• 1914 » Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1929 » Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864)
• 1934 » Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
• 1940 » Édouard Vuillard, French painter (b. 1868)
• 1940 » Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1881)

• 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 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
• July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
• August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.

The temperature on June 21, 1909 was between 10.8 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.