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• Adriana Petronella Maria van Mosseveld, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Pietje Boetes, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2002)
• Albertus Bruins, Klooster († 2003)
• Agnes Apollonia Theodora van Ingen, Amsterdam († 1968)
• Adriana Sluijmers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Stuiver, Valthermond, Odoorn († 1925)
• Adriana Susanna van der Waal, Rotterdam
• Liekendiek, Amsterdam († 1979)
• Age Roelof Molenmaker, Buiksloot Amsterdam Noord-Holland Nederland († 1979)
• Anthonie Hage, Rotterdam

• Aart van Eijk (66), Rockanje
• Antonius Josephus Coppens (18)
• Adrianus Aalberts (82), Valburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriaan Huisman (0), Wormerveer
• Allie Tukker (21)
• Anna Christina Meijer (70), Alkemade
• Antje Boersma (84), Castricum
• Aart Cornelis Sijbrands (0), Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Anna Johanna van Roon (59), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Hermina Koehler (27), Highland, Madison County, ILL

• 1906 » Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography († 1968)
• 1909 » Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist († 2012)
• 1911 » Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and author († 1979)
• 1913 » Betty Field, American actress († 1973)
• 1913 » Danai Stratigopoulou, Greek singer-songwriter († 2009)
• 1914 » Bill Finger, American author and screenwriter, co-created Batman († 1974)
• 1915 » Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French singer, dancer, and actor († 1997)
• 1918 » Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager († 2003)
• 1921 » Barney Danson, Canadian colonel and politician, 21st Canadian Minister of National Defence († 2011)
• 1921 » Nexhmije Hoxha, Albanian politician († 2020)

• 1907 » Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1910 » Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, Irish hereditary peer (b. 1828)
• 1915 » François Langelier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1838)
• 1921 » George Formby Sr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857)
• 1932 » Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)

• 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.
• February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
• February 20 » King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
• March 18 » King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
• June 19 » Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
• July 4 » President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
• July 31 » The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.

The temperature on February 8, 1913 was between 2.7 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.