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• Johanna Geertrui Eggink, Doetinchem († 1997)
• Alicia Isabel Eder, Oakdale (Minnesota, VS) († 2001)
• Aaltje Kroek, Meppel († 2005)
• Albertje Veneboer, Steenwijkerwold († 1999)
• Adriana Nerings, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1909)
• Alexander Bernard Anton Köster, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Anke Pietje Dorenstouter, Amsterdam
• Anke, Pietje Dorenstouter, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus van Kuilenburg, Kapel Avezaath
• Adriana Maria van Lomwel, Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland

• Arie Albertsz Stam (19), Egmond aan Zee
• Alida Geertruida Kornelia Warmolts (36), Noord (Hoogeveen)
• Aagje KLAVER (73), Opperdoes, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, NEDERLAND
• Anna Hendrika Lelieveld (0), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Angenis Klaasen (78), Assen
• Catharina van Uden (60), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Alida Geertruida Cornelia Warmolts (36), Noord, Hoogeveen
• Angenis Klaasen (78), Assen, Nederland
• Carolus Constantius Josephus Monroy (72), Oostende
• Arie Stam (19), Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland

• 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)

• 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 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
• January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
• March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
• August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
• September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
• 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 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.