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• Adriaan Jumelet, Bruinisse
• Adrianus Veltman, Amsterdam († 1978)
• Agatha Margaretha Konijn, Ilpendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Christina Brandenburg, Amsterdam († 1932)
• Adeline Antonia Versteeg, Batavia, West-Java († 2011)
• Adrianus van Eeten, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Julianus Berebroeckx, Brustem, België († 2000)
• Agatha Margaretha Konijn, Ilpendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1964)
• Annechien van der Spoel, Peize († 1993)
• (Stillborn) KLOOSTERMAN, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1914)

• Adriana Petronella Zijlmans (60), Waspik
• Agatha Frederica (Frederika) Bubberman (66), Schiedam
• Jan Koster (25), Avereest
• Christina Görtz (83), Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carolina Charlotte Annes (80), Amsterdam
• Adèle Alexandrine Joseph DELAUTRE (79), Bours(62)... Hauts de France
• Antonius Cornelis van der Valck (69), 's-Gravenhage
• Christina Koenders (53), Driel
• Agatha Frederika Frederica Bubberman (66), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Land (32), Rotterdam

• 1912 » Frank Thomas, American voice actor, animator, and screenwriter († 2004)
• 1912 » John Cage, American composer and theorist († 1992)
• 1912 » Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German actress and photographer († 2001)
• 1914 » Gail Kubik, American violinist, composer, and educator († 1984)
• 1914 » Nicanor Parra, Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet († 2018)
• 1914 » Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist († 2013)
• 1916 » Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1916 » Frank Yerby, American novelist († 1991)
• 1917 » Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer († 2012)
• 1917 » Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racer and trainer († 2008)

• 1898 » Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
• 1901 » Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (b. 1853)
• 1902 » Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844)
• 1909 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist (b. 1864)
• 1912 » Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American general (b. 1845)
• 1917 » Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (b. 1872)
• 1920 » Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
• 1922 » Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)

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.
• April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
• August 5 » World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SSPfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
• August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
• August 15 » World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
• August 23 » World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
• October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.

The temperature on September 5, 1914 was between 5.9 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.