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• Adrianus Johannes Duermeijer, Hillegersberg
• Adriana Hendriks, Tilburg
• Anna Margaretha Gijsbertha Poot, Oude Niedorp († 2000)
• Annigje (Annie) Huisman, Doesburg († 1994)
• Keur, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Klazina Breederveld, Vlaardingen
• Anna Margaretha Gijsbertha Poot, Oude Niedorp († 2000)
• Angele Bracke, De Klinge (B), België († 2004)
• Annie van de Put, Budel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)
• Alida Jacoba Rietdijk, Delft († 2000)

• Albert Johan Keijser (42), Loosduinen
• Anna Catharina Cecilia Baijle (61), Den Haag
• Antonius Franciscus van Stratum (1), Heeze, NL
• Anna Catharina Hermina Rietman (66), Middelburg
• Angela Helena Rodewijk (51), Alkemade (Roelofarendsveen), Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Arkenbout (43), rockanje
• Berend Wolters (68), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Amelia Pérez (0), Goliad, Goliad County, TX, United States
• Agostinho José de Almeida (104)
• Bareld Suurd (41), Peize, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1908 » Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France († 1988)
• 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)
• 1914 » Lucy Ozarin, United States Navy lieutenant commander and psychiatrist († 2017)
• 1915 » Max Lanier, American baseball player and manager († 2007)

• 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. 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 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
• April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
• April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
• May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
• September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
• September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

The temperature on August 18, 1912 was between 12.7 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.