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• Aart Schaft, Oostzaan, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1912)
• Agnes Adriana van Aalst, Berghem († 1912)
• van den Brink-, Bemmel, Nederland († 1912)
• Adrianus Cornelis Olieslagers, Baarle-Hertog (België)
• Adrianus van Spijk, Vlaardingen,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Adrianus Anthonius Brozius, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1912)
• Anna Catharina van Gerven, Valkenswaard
• van Oosterhout († 1912)
• Alida Catharina van Woudenberg
• Aaltje van Egdom († 1957)

• Adrianus Strijbos (0), Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Antonia Petronella Josephina Lormans (7), Nederweert
• Adriana Elisabeth Vlodder (0), Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Berendina Wilhelmina Loevering (0), Braamt, Nederland
• Angenieta Hermina Kok (74), Venray
• Berendina de Groot (58), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Lammers (42), Delfzijl
• Andries LEEUWEN,VAN (83), Naaldwijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Hendrika Machgielsen (63), Amsterdam
• Antonia Frederika van Gennep (1), Zwolle

• 1910 » C. C. Beck, American illustrator († 1989)
• 1910 » Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer, sculptor, and painter († 2003)
• 1910 » John W. Campbell, American journalist and author († 1971)
• 1911 » Edmundo Rivero, Argentinian singer-songwriter († 1986)
• 1912 » Harry Holtzman, American painter († 1987)
• 1912 » Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician († 1989)
• 1912 » Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, British abstract painter († 2004)
• 1915 » Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet († 2015)
• 1916 » Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1916 » Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter († 2007)

• 1874 » Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)
• 1876 » George Sand, French author and playwright (b. 1804)
• 1885 » Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (b. 1799)
• 1889 » Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844)
• 1899 » Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (b. 1863)
• 1924 » Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1902)
• 1924 » George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Bliss Carman, Canadian-American poet and playwright (b. 1861)
• 1945 » Karl Hanke, Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903)
• 1951 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874)

• 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.
• May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
• November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
• December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

The temperature on June 8, 1912 was between 9.3 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.