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• Anna Maria Theresia van Uitert, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacob Grootenboer, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1965)
• Alida Johanna Roozeboom, Amsterdam († 2007)
• Anna Damming, Hollandscheveld, Drenthe, Nederland († 1960)
• Adrianus Lambertus Vermeiren, St-Lenaarts († 1975)
• Alexandra Margaretha du Moulin, Nijmegen
• Albertha Charlotta Holewijn, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Brugman, Hof van Delft
• Aaltje Heerts Schroor, Terschelling-West († 1987)
• Adrianus Verhagen, Made en Drimmelen

• Aaltje Combee (61), Besoijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Antonius IZEREEF (0), Lengel (gem. Bergh
• Anna Vissers (0), Berlicum, NL
• Anna Catharina Broeckx (0), Dessel, België
• Bernardus Izereef (0), Lengel (gem. Bergh
• Bernardus Franciscus van Onna (63), Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Steens (0), The Hague,South Holland,Netherlands
• Antonia Vianen (0), Utrecht
• Antonetta Catharina van den Acker (0), Uden
• Akke Freerks van Zwol (81), Beets (Opsterland)

• 1908 » Carole Lombard, American actress († 1942)
• 1908 » Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic († 1989)
• 1910 » Barbara Castle, English journalist and politician, First Secretary of State († 2002)
• 1910 » Orazio Satta Puliga, Italian automobile designer († 1974)
• 1912 » Perkins Bass, American lawyer and politician († 2011)
• 1913 » Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter and photographer († 1985)
• 1914 » Joan Littlewood, English director and playwright († 2002)
• 1914 » Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer († 2002)
• 1915 » Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and activist († 2007)
• 1915 » Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal († 1983)

• 1873 » Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1883 » Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
• 1891 » Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
• 1892 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)

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. Gerardus
14. Arie
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
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 6.0 million citizens.
• January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
• May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
• August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
• September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
• October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
• December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

The temperature on October 6, 1911 was between 3.1 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.