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• Adrianus Wilhelmus Dankers, Roosendaal en Nispen († 1910)
• Aart Diepeveen, Rotterdam
• Albert Petrus Hendrikus Leeflang, Rotterdam († 1927)
• Aldegonda van Seccelen, Deurne en Liessel († 1994)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Maas, Roosendaal († 1910)
• Antonius Maria Suijkerbuijk, Oud en Nieuw Gasel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andre Corneel Huyghe, Westvleteren († 1978)
• Aafje van Zwol, Georgsdorf, Bentheim, Duitsland
• Andreas van Bart, Rotterdam
• Marquerite Maria Louisa van Nieuwenhuyse, Roeselare (B) († 1987)

• Anna 'Nancy' MacCormack (88), Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Albert Eleveld (63), Helpman, Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Alke Smits (39), Roswinkel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Claassen (71), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Auke Brinksma (37), Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland
• Artje Hendrina den Boestert (31), Haaften
• Akke Feddes van der Feen (68), Spink County, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Groeneveld (65), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina HOOS (83), Rotterdam
• Alida de Vries (19), Willemsoord (Steenwijkerwold)

• 1904 » Kenneth V. Thimann, English-American botanist and microbiologist († 1997)
• 1906 » Joan Hickson, English actress († 1998)
• 1906 » John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1906 » Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)
• 1908 » Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia († 1967)
• 1908 » Jose Garcia Villa, Filipino short story writer and poet († 1997)
• 1910 » Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and manager († 1979)
• 1910 » Herminio Masantonio, Argentinian footballer († 1956)
• 1911 » Robert Taylor, American actor and singer († 1969)
• 1912 » Abbé Pierre, French priest and humanitarian († 2007)

• 1881 » Spotted Tail, American tribal chief (b. 1823)
• 1895 » Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1901 » Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1840)
• 1904 » George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1834)
• 1911 » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864)
• 1916 » George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885)
• 1921 » Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
• 1929 » Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)
• 1933 » Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1935 » David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891)

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.
• 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.
• February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
• April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
• September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
• October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
• December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The temperature on August 5, 1909 was between 8.2 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.