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• Alta Hermione HILL, Roberts, Jefferson, Idaho, United States of America († 2001)
• Abeltje Dassen, Oranjedorp, Emmen
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Cornelis KNOOP, Rotterdam († 1977)
• Alle Kaspers, Vledderveen, Onstwedde
• Albertina Kühne, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, Brasil († 1971)
• Albert Vlassenrood, Sint Jansteen (Nl) († 1911)
• Adeleida Gertruda Elisabeth Rongen, Venray-Oirlo († 1977)
• Johanna Geertrui Eggink, Doetinchem († 1997)
• Albert Stubbe, Wedde
• Anna van Duin, Opdam († 1990)

• Aagje Klaver (73), Opperdoes
• Antoinette Charlotte Elisabeth van Pechpeyrou-Comminges de Guitaut (69), Parijs
• Angenis (Agnes) Klaasen (78), Assen, Dr, Nederland
• Constance Hilte (58), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anastasia Catharina Schaefers (58), Rotterdam
• Charles Thomas Saffery, Sr. (42)
• Arie Albertsz Stam (19), Egmond aan Zee
• Antonie van der Velde (77), Ossendrecht, Nederland
• Alexander Hale Smith (71), Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
• Anna Maria Stroucken (53)

• 1906 » Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach († 1985)
• 1906 » Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1907 » Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean physician and politician, 2nd President of Singapore († 1981)
• 1907 » Boy Charlton, Australian swimmer († 1975)
• 1907 » Gladys Bentley, American blues singer († 1960)
• 1907 » Joe Besser, American actor († 1988)
• 1909 » Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman († 1991)
• 1910 » Jane Wyatt, American actress († 2006)
• 1910 » Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore († 1970)
• 1911 » Cantinflas, Mexican actor, screenwriter, and producer († 1993)

• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)

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.
• February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
• 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.
• March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
• April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
• April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
• December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The temperature on August 12, 1909 was between 9.0 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.