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• Aaltje van Leuveren, Hoevelaken
• Albertus Christiaan Adriaan Kwant († 1993)
• Aaltje LEUVEREN, van, Hoevelaken, Gelderland, Nederland († 1995)
• Aalt Hop, Ede († 1982)
• Ali Smink, Meppel,, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alexander Bertold Erich Steffen, Winterswijk (Gld.)
• Alphonse MAYER, Spicheren, Moselle, Grand Est, France († 1974)
• Adrienne PREUD'HOMME, Vierset-Barse, 4577, Liège, Belgique († 1996)
• Carolus Borromeus Johannes Schel, Den Haag
• Albertus Oeldrich, Amsterdam

• Anna Catharina Meurs (60), Kerkrade
• Abraham van Bloemheuvel (85), Arnhem
• Annie Ridley (63)
• Abraham Bloemheuvel (85), Arnhem
• Arend ROODSANT (83), Middelharnis, NL-ZH
• Benedict Graaf Giovanelli van Gerstburg (69), Celje (Cilli), Untersteiermark, Slovenië
• Adolf Josef van der Valk (0), Rotterdam
• Antje van Diest (66), Ouder-Amstel
• Bertha Maria Theodora Versteegh (0), Didam
• Anniggien van Dijken (67), Middelbert

• 1909 » Michael Rennie, English actor and producer († 1971)
• 1909 » Ruby Keeler, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer († 1993)
• 1910 » Dorothea Tanning, American painter, sculptor, and poet († 2012)
• 1910 » George Cisar, American baseball player († 2010)
• 1911 » Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam († 2013)
• 1912 » Erich Honecker, German soldier and politician († 1994)
• 1913 » Don DeFore, American actor († 1993)
• 1913 » Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator († 1973)
• 1916 » Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2003)
• 1916 » Van Johnson, American actor († 2008)

• 1900 » Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)
• 1904 » Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
• 1908 » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1916 » Mary Tappan Wright, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)
• 1924 » Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)
• 1924 » Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor, and writer of prose and poetry (b. 1858)
• 1925 » Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Frankie Campbell, American boxer (b. 1904)
• 1931 » Dorothea Fairbridge, South African author and co-founder of Guild of Loyal Women (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.
• 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.
• January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
• July 30 » Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
• October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
• 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.
• 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 August 25, 1912 was between 13.1 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.