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• Antoine Jean Elie Berger, Anderlecht (B)
• Adolf Nicolaas Petrus Paulus van Os, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1911)
• Antoinette Eugénie Zulma Yvonne Marie Mitterrand, Jarnac, Charente, France († 1999)
• Bartholomeus Assendelft, Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• de Graaff, Den Haag, Netherlands († 1909)
• van der Waard, Voorschoten, Nederland († 1909)
• Antony Powys-Lybbe, Rectory Farm, Streatley, Berks († 2004)
• Albert Jan Top, Noordhorn,Gronigen,Niederlande († 1989)
• Anna Johannsd Mayer, Straubing (Dld) († 1978)
• Barend Hoogwerf, Rotterdam († 1995)

• Caroline Louisa WHITMORE
• Agatha Maria Wassenaar (4), Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ana Cintra Vergueiro (15), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Arie Modder (9)
• Catharina Jansen (72), Nijmegen
• Cornelia Maria Kiebert (18), Rijnsaterwoude, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Willemsen (82)
• Oomen, Etten-Leur
• Albert Visscher (74), Assendorp (Heerde)
• Bouke Bijsterveld (82), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1906 » Heinz Harmel, German general († 2000)
• 1906 » Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Ukrainian general († 1945)
• 1908 » Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower († 1963)
• 1908 » Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor († 1975)
• 1910 » Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player († 1993)
• 1910 » Frank Loesser, American composer and conductor († 1969)
• 1911 » Bernard Herrmann, American composer and conductor († 1975)
• 1911 » Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress († 1995)
• 1911 » Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld († 2004)
• 1912 » José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican pianist, composer, and conductor († 1958)

• 1895 » Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b. 1825)
• 1900 » Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1827)
• 1907 » Konstantinos Volanakis, Greek painter and academic (b. 1837)
• 1919 » José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician and educator (b. 1864)
• 1931 » Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet and physician (b. 1850)
• 1933 » Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
• 1935 » Jack O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)
• 1936 » János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and missionary (b. 1872)
• 1940 » Paul Klee, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)

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.
• 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 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
• June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on June 29, 1909 was between 5.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.