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• Aaltje van der Veen, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2000)
• Adrianus Simon Kleijn Hesseling, Dordrecht, Nederland († 1969)
• Alphonsius Marinus Vink, Well, Bergen, Lim, Nederland († 1912)
• Adolf Josef van der Valk, Rotterdam († 1912)
• Adriana (Sjaan) Hendriks, Tilburg
• Alberta Anna Kromhout, Rijnsburg († 1912)
• Andries Linzes Idzerda, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1961)
• Anna Margaretha Gijsbertha Poot, Oude Niedorp († 2000)
• Annie van de Put, Budel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)
• Adrianus Bezemer, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1944)

• Agostinho José de Almeida (104)
• Anna Catharina Cecilia Bayle (61), den haag
• Adriana Jacomina Harms (63), Kruiningen, Nederland
• Aeiltje Andries Overdiep (44)
• Anna Cornelia Stoffels (80), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Angela Helena Rodewijk (51), Alkemade (Roelofarendsveen), Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus van Stratum, Heeze
• Augustinus Franken (75), Tilburg, Nbr.NL
• Anna Catharina Cecilia Baijle (61), Den Haag
• Anna Francisca Julia van Puijfelick (73), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1908 » Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France († 1988)
• 1909 » Gérard Filion, Canadian businessman and journalist († 2005)
• 1910 » Herman Berlinski, Polish-American pianist, composer, and conductor († 2001)
• 1910 » Robert Winters, Canadian colonel, engineer, and politician, 26th Canadian Minister of Public Works († 1969)
• 1911 » Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist († 2015)
• 1911 » Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer († 1963)
• 1912 » Otto Ernst Remer, German general († 1997)
• 1913 » Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist († 1983)
• 1914 » Lucy Ozarin, United States Navy lieutenant commander and psychiatrist († 2017)
• 1915 » Max Lanier, American baseball player and manager († 2007)

• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)
• 1964 » Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)

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.
• March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
• April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
• June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
• September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
• October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
• November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

The temperature on August 18, 1912 was between 12.7 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.