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• Antje Rinkema, St. Nicolaasga († 2005)
• Adolphina (Fien) Mulder, Utrecht, Nederland († 2007)
• Antonia Maria HILGEHOLT, Enschede († 2007)
• Abbe Bergsma († 1990)
• Arie Verkerk, Stolwijk († 2007)
• Alma Catherine Elbert, Whittemore, Kossuth County, Iowa († 2013)
• Baldine Adrienne Cornélie Adriënne Voûte, Amsterdam († 2009)
• Albert Donckers, Hoogstraten (B) († 1997)
• Albrecht Bostoen, Kortrijk († 2004)
• Aleida Johanna Meijerman, Ambt-D'chem († 1992)

• Annegien Snel (75), Oud Lutten, Overijssel, Nederland
• Lammert Wever (69), Emmen Drenthe
• Anna Billerbeck (57), Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Carolina_Justina van Beusechem (69), Tjimahi, Ned.-Indie
• Andries Ellen (1)
• Anthonie Wilhelm HOEFLAKEN (68), Utrecht, Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida Maria van Zuijlen (39), Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia van de Vossenberg (53), Bakel en Milheeze
• Anthonie Wilhelm Hoeflaken (68), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anne VAN DER LOON (78), Franeker

• 1912 » Meldrim Thomson, Jr., American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire († 2001)
• 1912 » Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas († 2003)
• 1914 » Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian-Russian physicist and astronomer († 1987)
• 1918 » Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress († 2008)
• 1920 » Douglass Wallop, American author and playwright († 1985)
• 1921 » Alan Hale, Jr., American actor († 1990)
• 1921 » Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter († 1980)
• 1922 » Carl Furillo, American baseball player († 1989)
• 1922 » Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer († 2008)
• 1922 » Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey († 2014)

• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Grietje
15. Helena
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 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 6.5 million citizens.
• March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
• October 4 » World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
• November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
• November 26 » The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
• December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
• December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

The temperature on March 8, 1917 was between -6.4 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -2.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.