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• Aleida Maria Ebbers, Terborg, Nederland († 1978)
• Adriana Johanna van Sonsbeek, Nijmegen
• Aaltje Everts, Krakeel, Hoogeveen
• FIDDELAERS ANNA-MARIA-CATHARINA, KINROOI († 1991)
• Anna Jozina FOEKEN, Dordrecht († 1943)
• Agnes Ellen McCoy, Dergany, Moorefield, Trillick, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland († 2001)
• Aaltje Everts, Hollandscheveld († 1997)
• Amalia Clara de Leeuw, arnhem († 1986)
• Alida de Gast, Nieuw Helvoet
• adriana TOL, piershil († 2011)

• Aukje Boek (45), Zevenhuizen, gem. Leek, Groningen, Nederland
• Arnoldus Vermeulen (82), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina Johanna Hebing (68), Doesburg
• Aaltiena Alagonda Wilhelmina Burghgraaf (68), De Groeve
• Arendje DOLDERSUM (61), Ruinen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Duijf (22), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Anthonia Maria Stam (2), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Klaas Van Der Weide (82), Emmen
• Aaltje Vortman (2), Nieuwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Arendje Wessels Doldersum (61), Stuifzand (Ruinen)

• 1906 » André Weil, French mathematician and academic († 1998)
• 1907 » Weeb Ewbank, American football player and coach († 1998)
• 1911 » Guy des Cars, French journalist and author († 1993)
• 1913 » Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist († 1989)
• 1913 » Stewart Granger, English-American actor († 1993)
• 1915 » Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1985)
• 1915 » Theodore H. White, American historian, journalist, and author († 1986)
• 1916 » Robert H. Dicke, American physicist and astronomer († 1997)
• 1917 » Kal Mann, American songwriter († 2001)
• 1918 » Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, emir of Abu Dhabi and first president of the United Arab Emirates († 2004)

• 1877 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
• 1882 » Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
• 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 1919 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)
• 1939 » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (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. 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.
• February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
• July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
• October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
• October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
• November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
• November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

The temperature on May 6, 1912 was between 7.2 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.