About the day » Saturday August 8, 1914Calender converter

• Adrianus Schipper, Oud-Beijerland
• Albertus Roskam, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Abraham Disberg
• Albertus Theodorus Roeloffzen, Apeldoorn
• Ambrose Joseph Finnegan, Jr, Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA, United States († 1944)
• adrianus SCHIPPER, oud-beijerland († 2008)
• Adrianus Andries Vuijk, Rotterdam
• Adrianus Jan de Wit († 1972)
• Alice Maria Joseph Van Poucke, Maldegem († 2000)
• Alida van Geffen, Utrecht

• Anthonius Nicolaas Alexander Schooleman (45), Utrecht
• Adolphe Hubert Céleste Armand FOGUENNE (70), Francorchamps, 4970, Liège, Belgique
• Anna Geertruida Sommer (74), 's-Gravenhage
• Balthazar MANGELINCKX (65), Onkerzele, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Aagje Jongebreur (30), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Daub (56), Amsterdam
• Albert Vogelezang (44), Schiedam
• adriaan VAN DEN BREEKEL (72)
• Caswell Sims Wilson (71), Bohanon Cemetery, Pulaski, Georgia, United States
• Aafje Zeeman (66), Winkel

• 1908 » Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1990)
• 1909 » Bill Voce, England cricketer and coach († 1984)
• 1909 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English cricketer and politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1977)
• 1909 » Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales († 1987)
• 1910 » Jimmy Murphy, Welsh-English footballer and manager († 1989)
• 1910 » Sylvia Sidney, American actress († 1999)
• 1911 » Rosetta LeNoire, American actress († 2002)
• 1915 » James Elliott, American runner and coach († 1981)
• 1919 » Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor and producer († 2010)
• 1919 » John David Wilson, English animator and producer († 2013)

• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1920 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)
• 1928 » Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
• 1930 » Launceston Elliot, Scottish wrestler and weightlifter (b. 1874)

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. Arie
15. Wilhelmus
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.
• July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
• July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
• August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
• August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
• September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
• October 19 » First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins.

The temperature on August 8, 1914 was between 7.7 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.