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• Anna MariaCathrna Zandbergen, Noordwijk († 1912)
• Antonie Winkel, Kesteren
• Antonie Hendrik Leenard Dingelhoff, Valburg (gelderland) Nederland
• Andries Fidder, Nunspeet
• (Door), Theodora van Dijk (Verdijk), Meerlo Tienray († 1994)
• Adriana Johanna Wouters, Lage Mierde
• Annigje Langemaat, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland († 2008)
• Anna Maria Catharina Zandbergen, Noordwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1912)
• Alexander Hubertus JANSSEN, Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland († 1998)
• Adriana Maatje de Vries, Goes

• Albartha Wilhelmina Hempenius (86), Ermelo
• * Elizabeth Baars (0), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, NL
• Clasina Agatha de Klerk (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Gerarda Maria van den Berg (0), Monster
• Alice Geneva Harrington (3), Jasper County, Mississippi, United States of America
• Cornelia Francisca Petronella Vermeer (0), Tilburg
• antje van raalt (75), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Debora Daniel Henriques Coelho (66), 's Gravenhage
• Bernardus Johannes Klein Gebbinck (74), Groenlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernard Albert WILKEN (68), Germantown, Clinton County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten

• 1906 » Joan Hickson, English actress († 1998)
• 1906 » John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1987)
• 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)
• 1914 » Parley Baer, American actor († 2002)
• 1916 » Peter Viereck, American poet and academic († 2006)

• 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)
• 1939 » Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
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 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
• March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
• April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
• May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
• October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
• November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.

The temperature on August 5, 1912 was between 10.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.