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• Alice Belliston, Nephi, Juab, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1983)
• Adriaan Kleijn, Sliedrecht († 1995)
• Aleida Johanna Harmsen, Stokkum (Bergh)
• Alphons Johnnij Uithoven, Koedoes, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie († 1912)
• Albert Albers, Weerdinge, Emmen († 1993)
• Alexander Meijers, Brummen (NL) († 1974)
• Adriana Antonia Koenen, Sambeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1971)
• Aaldert Naber, De Huizen, Hoogeveen
• Abraham Spanjar, Borculo,Gemeente Berkelland, Gelderland, Nederland († 1944)
• Adriana Neeltje Keijts, Meerkerk

• Antje Spel (85), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonia Cornelia Kennis (1)
• Santing (0), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Annetje Van Amstel (66), Huizen
• Anthonij van den Boogaart (68), Westbroek, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Arnolda Gerharda Hofstede (0), Hengelo
• Anna Does (69), Voorhout
• aminardus Hubertus van Putten (67), Groenlo
• Aagje den Hollander (72), (UT) Woerden
• Arie de Vette (73), Kethel en Spaland

• 1907 » Trường Chinh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam († 1988)
• 1909 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer († 1955)
• 1909 » Dean Rusk, American colonel and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State († 1994)
• 1909 » Heather Angel, English-American actress († 1986)
• 1910 » Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1911 » William Orlando Darby, American general († 1945)
• 1912 » Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna († 1968)
• 1912 » Ginette Leclerc, French actress († 1992)
• 1914 » Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1984)
• 1916 » Tex Hughson, American baseball player († 1993)

• 1874 » Jules Michelet, French historian, philosopher, and academic (b. 1798)
• 1881 » Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (b. 1821)
• 1891 » Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)
• 1903 » Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria (b. 1816)
• 1906 » Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1872)
• 1928 » William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (b. 1868)
• 1930 » Richard With, Norwegian captain and businessman, founded Hurtigruten (b. 1846)
• 1932 » A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi soldier and activist (b. 1904)
• 1932 » Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and banker (b. 1869)
• 1945 » Ella D. Barrier, American educator (b. 1852)

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. Aaltje
13. Grietje
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.
• January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
• February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
• April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
• June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
• December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)

The temperature on February 9, 1912 was between 7.9 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.