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• Albert Pieter BRINKMAN, heerewaarden († 1913)
• Aaltje de Groot (ten Hoorn), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands († 1952)
• Anna Koppelaar, Hardinxveld
• Anna Maria van de Koolwijk, Megen
• Albert Jans SCHAAP, Zuurdijk Groningen Netherlands
• Adrianus Egbertus Ulijn, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1913)
• Agnes Cornelia Elisabeth Kox, Duizel († 1968)
• Adriaan Pieter Hoogesteger, Oost-en West-Souburg
• Aldegondis Nolmans, Beverst († 1992)
• Alberdina van Lieshout, Hees († 1914)

• Anton Svitak (48), Howells, Cuming, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Wilhelmina van Duuren (66), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van Bommel (67), Rotterdam
• Bastiaan van Houwelingen (83), Bergambacht, Nederland
• Aaltje Pos (45), Loenen
• Carolus Ludovicus Temmerman (96), Sint-Laureins
• Anna Maria Wenders (61), Vaals
• Barteld Last (79), Kampen, Nederland
• Alida Johanna Fransen (75), Groningen
• Aaltje Roelofs Mager (82), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands

• 1907 » Günter Eich, German author and songwriter († 1972)
• 1908 » George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer († 1980)
• 1908 » Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist and banker († 1998)
• 1909 » George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter († 2013)
• 1910 » Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Chinese general and politician († 2009)
• 1915 » Stanley Matthews, English footballer and manager († 2000)
• 1917 » Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player and soldier († 1944)
• 1917 » José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author († 2013)
• 1918 » Ignacy Tokarczuk, Polish archbishop († 2012)
• 1918 » Muriel Spark, Scottish playwright and poet († 2006)

• 1893 » George Henry Sanderson, American lawyer and politician, 22nd Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
• 1897 » Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (b. 1826)
• 1903 » Sir George Stokes, Anglo-Irish physicist, mathematician, and politician (b. 1819)
• 1907 » Léon Serpollet, French businessman (b. 1858)
• 1908 » Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1922 » William Desmond Taylor, American actor and director (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Maurice Prendergast, American painter (b. 1858)
• 1928 » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
• 1936 » Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and politician, 128th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1940 » Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (b. 1888)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Antonius
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

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. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
• January 18 » First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
• February 20 » King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
• May 14 » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
• August 13 » First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
• October 10 » U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
• December 23 » The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.

The temperature on February 1, 1913 was between 1.2 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 9.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.