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• Adrianus Anthonius Brozius, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1912)
• Anna Francisca (An) Thelen, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1992)
• Agatha Anna Kruis, Luinjeberd († 1999)
• A.M. van der Weegh († 2001)
• Anna Clementina Janssen, Helden († 1994)
• "Joseph Gabriel" Bonifatius Ida Hubert Maria von Plettenberg, Schloss Hovestadt, Lippetal, Allemagne († 1942)
• Adriana Martha Damen, Loon op Zand († 1973)
• Andrew Virgil Ball († 1986)
• Adrianus Janssen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Petrus Rottier, St. Jansteen, Zeeland, Nederland († 2002)

• Antje LITTOOIJ (74), Dubbeldam
• Adrianus Strijbos (0), Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Berendina de Groot (58), Oosterhuizen (Apeldoorn)
• Andries van Leeuwen (83), Naaldwijk
• Bregje Dekker (26), Broek op Langedijk
• Adriaan van Dongen (74), Loon op Zand
• ARIE OVERSLOOT (72), MONSTER
• Berendina de Groot (58), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berend van Apeldoorn (67), Deventer
• Berendina Wilhelmina Loevering (0), Braamt, Nederland

• 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)

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 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
• June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
• 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 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
• December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
• 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.