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• Agatha Margaretha Swart, Akersloot, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Antonetta Bernardina Vermonden, Baarle Nassau(B) († 1920)
• Alida Fastenau, Schiedam, Nederland († 1976)
• Adriana Petronella van Gurp, Hedikhuizen († 1918)
• Alida Weekhout, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1997)
• Ava Reba Overton, Wayne, McClain County, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Adrianus Johannes van Heesch, Boxtel († 1994)
• Bauke (Hendriks) Schievink († 1998)
• Adolphien Eleonora MacGillavry, Fort de Kock, Indonesië († 1999)
• Albertus Johannes van Kalkeren, Ommeren,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1992)

• Antonius Nicolaas PANSIER (1734), Nijmegen
• Alida Brigitha Vroom (39), Oude Pekela, Nederland
• Adriana Verbarendse (83), Bergen op Zoom, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Annichje ter Stege (86), Hoogeveen
• ANNIGJEN JANS de JONG (88), BLANKENHAM
• Arend ten Dam (47), Hengelo
• Antoni Pieters de Jonge (88), Holte, Onstwedde, provincie Groningen
• Anna Elisabeth Josse (74), Rotterdam
• Alphonse Théodore EYMAEL (34), Le Havre, Seine Maritime, Frankrijk
• Antonius Laurentius van Eijndhoven (40), den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 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 » Lana Turner, American actress († 1995)
• 1921 » Nexhmije Hoxha, Albanian politician († 2020)
• 1922 » Audrey Meadows, American actress and banker († 1996)

• 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)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Aaltje
12. Jacoba
13. Geertruida
14. Helena
15. Grietje
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
• June 26 » World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
• July 9 » In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
• July 17 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
• September 15 » World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
• December 1 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
• December 16 » Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic; it is dissolved in 1919.

The temperature on February 8, 1918 was between 6.9 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.