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• Adriana Maatje de Vries, Goes
• Anna Nijborg, Annen
• Anna Johanna Keesman, Barsingerhorn († 2003)
• Andries Fidder, Nunspeet
• Adriana Maria Lewiszong, Druten, Ge, Nederland († 1992)
• Adriana Burggraaf, Utrecht, Nederland
• * Catharina Maria (Rina) Kaptein, Hazerswoude († 1993)
• Adriana Burggraaf, Utrecht († 2008)
• Alicia WAUTERS, Kallo († 1999)
• Adriana Maatje de Vries, Goes

• Albartha Wilhelmina Hempenius (86), Ermelo, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Debora Daniël Henrigues Coelho (66), 's-Gravenhage Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Anna Alexandrina Garcia (70), Aririu,Palhoca,SC,Brasil
• Alfred Miller Hall (46), Croydon
• Catharina Gerarda Maria van den Berg (0), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnolda Grada van Brakel (1), Arnhem
• Catharina Geradra Maria van den Berg (0), Monster, Nederland
• Bernard Albert Wilken (68), Germantown
• Albartha Wilhelmina Hempenius (86), Ermelo
• Debora Daniel Henriques Coelho (66), 's Gravenhage

• 1906 » Joan Hickson, English actress († 1998)
• 1906 » John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1908 » Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia († 1967)
• 1908 » Jose Garcia Villa, Filipino short story writer and poet († 1997)
• 1910 » Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and manager († 1979)
• 1910 » Herminio Masantonio, Argentinian footballer († 1956)
• 1911 » Robert Taylor, American actor and singer († 1969)
• 1912 » Abbé Pierre, French priest and humanitarian († 2007)
• 1914 » Parley Baer, American actor († 2002)
• 1916 » Peter Viereck, American poet and academic († 2006)

• 1895 » Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1901 » Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1840)
• 1904 » George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1834)
• 1911 » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864)
• 1916 » George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885)
• 1921 » Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
• 1929 » Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)
• 1933 » Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1935 » David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891)
• 1939 » Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)

• 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 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
• April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
• June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
• June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
• November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
• 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 5, 1912 was between 10.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.