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• Adrianus Johannes van Ierland, Tilburg
• Augusta Hendrika Alice Langie, Kwaremont, België († 2003)
• Aaron Wilson Brummett, Unicoi, Unicoi County, Tennessee, United States of America († 1993)
• Anna Crama, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Rutger Stijlaart, Utrecht († 1983)
• Albert Xavier André BAUDOIN, WINENNE, Namur, Belgique († 1990)
• Anna Zieltjens, osterfeld (duitsland ) († 1994)
• Adrianus Stoop, ,, den Bommel, Nederland
• Carolus Aloysius Augustinus Marie, Koewacht († 1994)
• Arij van der Meer, Oostvoorne

• Antonia Willemina Streppel (43), Apeldoorn
• Anna Margaret Mosser (87), West, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Arie Paul (75), Poortugaal, Nederland
• Aart Van Veldhuizen (74), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Augustine DUPIN (83), Channay-sur-Lathan, 37330, France
• Anna Aldegun Pollman (60), Pfalzdorf
• Afien Moesker (84), Bellingwolde
• Barberdina Jacomina Zeeff (0), Groningen
• Berend Smit Deelman (77)
• Adriana van Eeuwen (0), Waddinxveen

• 1908 » Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1909 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter († 1983)
• 1910 » George Musso, American football player and police officer († 2000)
• 1911 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic († 1995)
• 1911 » Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1912 » Alois Brunner, Austrian-German SS officer (d. 2001 or 2010)
• 1912 » Sonja Henie, Norwegian-American figure skater and actress († 1969)
• 1914 » María Félix, Yaqui/Basque-Mexican actress († 2002)
• 1915 » Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer († 2007)
• 1917 » Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist († 2007)

• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)

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 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
• March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
• April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
• May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
• October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
• 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 April 8, 1912 was between 6.0 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.