About the day » Tuesday December 8, 1914Calender converter

• Adrianus Damen, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• KOOPS
• Anna Maria Favier, Amsterdam
• Anna Henneman, Amsterdam († 1954)
• Adrianus Gerardus Maria van Erp, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adelgünda Koenen, Weeze
• Gehle, Verl († 1991)
• Antonia Neeltje Beversluis, Rotterdam († 1993)
• van Engelen, Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1997)
• Aart Buytendijk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Anna Maria Smolders‏ (81), Retie, België
• ANNA BURGINA PUTTER (75), ROTTERDAM
• Anje Kuipers (62), Ten Boer, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna van Spronssen, (1), Wassenaar, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Koomans van den Dries (0)
• Amelie Hendrica Kindts (36), IJzendijke
• Anthonius Hendrikus Wennekes (0)
• ADRIANA DE JAGER (77), SCHEVENINGEN (GEMEENTE 'S-GRAVENHAGE)
• * Cornelis van der Pligt (0), Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Antoinette Nieste (0), Maastricht

• 1911 » Lee J. Cobb, American actor († 1976)
• 1911 » Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and songwriter († 1992)
• 1913 » Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer († 1966)
• 1914 » Ernie Toshack, Australian cricketer († 2003)
• 1914 » Floyd Tillman, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2003)
• 1915 » Ernest Lehman, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2005)
• 1916 » Richard Fleischer, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1917 » Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer and administrator († 1998)
• 1919 » Julia Bowman, American mathematician and theorist († 1985)
• 1919 » Peter Tali Coleman, Samoan-American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of American Samoa († 1997)

• 1903 » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 » Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Camille Jenatzy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1868)
• 1914 » Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (b. 1861)
• 1914 » Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1828)
• 1917 » Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836)
• 1918 » Josip Štadler, Croatian archbishop (b. 1843)
• 1919 » J. Alden Weir, American painter (b. 1852)
• 1929 » José Vicente Concha, Colombian politician and 8th President of Colombia (b. 1867)
• 1932 » Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturist and writer (b. 1843)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• 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 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 6.2 million citizens.
• January 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
• April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
• May 29 » The Ocean liner RMSEmpress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
• August 21 » World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
• October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
• December 23 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.

The temperature on December 8, 1914 was between 6.3 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.