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• Adriana Veldwijk, Watergraafsmeer († 1950)
• Alphons Johan de Greef
• Adriana Janse, Koudekerke, Zeeland, NL († 1919)
• Albertus Cornelis Maria Kling, 's-Gravenhage
• Adrianus Petrus van Leest, Raamsdonk († 1984)
• Albert Grissen, Vriezenveen, Twenterand, Overijssel, Nederland († 2000)
• Addie Alberteen Lowery, Alabama († 1960)
• Andreas van Baekel, Haarlem († 1912)
• Alfred Alma Simmons, Lyman, Madison, Idaho, United States († 1974)
• Alfons Johan de Greef, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1980)

• Anna van Nolte (68), Wroclaw (Breslau), Neder-Silezië, Polen
• Anna Francina Floris (68), Rotterdam
• Andries Barelds (74), Emmen, Nederland
• Antonius Verbraak (41), Zevenbergen
• Annechien Lanting (77), Bedum
• Antonius Carolus Heimeriks (63), Deventer, 7421, Nederland
• Anna Maria Veltman (72), Drunen
• Annechien Abels Lanting (77), Bedum, Groningen, Nederland
• Aart Alblas (12), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Collier (65), Sint-Amands, Antwerpen, België

• 1909 » Don Messer, Canadian violinist († 1973)
• 1911 » Harry Simeone, American music arranger, conductor, and composer († 2005)
• 1912 » Géza Ottlik, Hungarian mathematician and theorist († 1990)
• 1912 » Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor († 1963)
• 1912 » Per Imerslund, Norwegian-German soldier and author († 1943)
• 1914 » Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor and director († 2005)
• 1914 » Denham Fouts, American prostitute († 1948)
• 1914 » Hank Snow, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1999)
• 1914 » Patricia Swift Blalock, American librarian (d.2011)
• 1914 » Thanat Khoman, Thai politician and diplomat († 2016)

• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)

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 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
• 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.
• February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
• July 30 » Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
• October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
• November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.

The temperature on May 9, 1912 was between 8.2 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.