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• * George Joseph Dorge, Venlo († 1972)
• Anna Bongers, Den Haag, Nederland († 1997)
• Annigje Jurriens Souwman, Vollenhove († 2003)
• Bernard Ellis Anderson, Bedford, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States
• Antonius Josephus Simonis, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1940)
• Adrianus Josephus Nicolaas WILLEMS, Sint-Oedenrode, 4197, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1993)
• Albert Valentine Faucon, Roanoke, Virginia († 1997)
• Andreas Adrianus Frijters, Fijnaart en Heijningen († 2004)
• Albert van der Veen, Leeuwarden († 1960)
• Albert Crommen, Romershoven († 1989)

• Alida Willemina Botterop (79), Gouda (Z-H)
• Amalia Caroline Gasparine Leopoldine Henriëtte Louise Elisabeth F Prinses van Fürstenberg (69), Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg
• van Roest (0), Renkum
• Anna Helena Baylé (56), franeker
• Aaltje Groot de (38), Leeuwaarden
• Alida SCHRAM (65), Rotterdam
• Alexander Anthonijsz (0), Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Anngje Okken (62), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands
• Adriana Petronella BOLLE (75), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Petronella Bolle (75), Rotterdam

• 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)
• 1922 » Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1922 » Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and director († 2003)

• 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. 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. Helena
14. Geertruida
15. Margaretha
16. Grietje

• 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.
• February 1 » Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
• July 17 » The RMSCarpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SMU-55; five lives are lost.
• August 13 » Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
• October 29 » The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
• December 1 » Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
• December 16 » Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic; it is dissolved in 1919.

The temperature on March 8, 1918 was between -1.3 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.