About the day » Thursday August 18, 1910Calender converter

• Angela Schöpper, Papenburg. Emsland
• Aart Zieltjens, Hilversum († 1942)
• Albert Jan Frederiks, Zwollerkerspel, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adam Joseph GUNTHER, Arnhem, 1163, Gelderland, Nederland
• ANNA PETRONELLA MARIA ENGELBERD, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1974)
• Adriana Johanna Kennes, Alphen en Riel
• Aaltje Jeannette van Ginkel, Utrecht, Nederland († 1932)
• Anthony Biddulph
• Albert Strome, Alliance, Alberta, Canada († 1981)
• Alfred E. Bohannon, unbekannt († 2002)

• Andreas Gerardus Hermanus Smit- (50), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Cornelis Lindhout (48), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België
• Antonius van den Eijnden (78), Deurne en Liessel,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Cornelis van der Giessen (83), Krimpen aan den IJssel
• Catharina Margaretha Anna Antonia Demes (10), Dokkum
• Aafke Rinnes Dijkema (76), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Luijten (22)
• Alzina Lucinda** LOTT (76), Lehi, Utah, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Franke (52), Berlin, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany
• Andreas Gerardus Hermanus Smit (50), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1908 » Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster († 1977)
• 1908 » Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France († 1988)
• 1908 » Olav H. Hauge, Norwegian poet and gardener († 1994)
• 1909 » Gérard Filion, Canadian businessman and journalist († 2005)
• 1910 » Herman Berlinski, Polish-American pianist, composer, and conductor († 2001)
• 1910 » Robert Winters, Canadian colonel, engineer, and politician, 26th Canadian Minister of Public Works († 1969)
• 1911 » Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist († 2015)
• 1911 » Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer († 1963)
• 1912 » Otto Ernst Remer, German general († 1997)
• 1913 » Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist († 1983)

• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)
• 1964 » Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Arie
14. Gerardus
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

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. Geertruida
14. Helena
15. Aaltje
16. Neeltje

• 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 5.9 million citizens.
• June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
• July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
• September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
• October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
• November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
• December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

The temperature on August 18, 1910 was between 11.8 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.