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• Adriana-Petronella van Gurp, Hedikhuizen († 2001)
• Adrianus van Pelt, Naaldwijk († 1973)
• Allen Jay Gross, Jackson Center, Shelby Co. Ohio († 2003)
• Lutjeboer, Westerlee, Groningen, Nederland († 1919)
• Albertus WIERSINGA, Meppel Drenthe Netherlands († 1942)
• Antonius Peters, Ubbergen († 1920)
• Adriana Petronella van Gurp, Hedikhuizen († 2001)
• Adrianus jacobus Schoorl, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1980)
• Aafke Klaziena Kloosterboer, Eenrum († 1919)
• (16n)Theodorus Joannes (Theo) van Besouw, Tilburg († 2007)

• Adrianus Joannes van Oirschot (3), Tilburg
• Anna Schaap (60)
• Arend WENSINK (56), Zutphen, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Aart Slingerland (53), Rotterdam
• Anna Portegijs (2), Kevelaar (D)
• Anthonie Marinus Adriaan Naijen (16), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Nattekaas (65), Ooltgensplaat
• Anthonij Meijer (35), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Arie Baarlen van (73), Rotterdam ( Zuid Holland )
• Arthémise-Angele ST-ONGE (73), St-Jacques, Edmundston, N.-B., Canada

• 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. Gerardus
13. Hendrikus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Albert
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Grietje
12. Jacoba
13. Aaltje
14. Helena
15. Geertruida
16. Alida

• 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 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 6.7 million citizens.
• February 6 » The American Legion is founded.
• March 1 » March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
• August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
• September 18 » The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
• December 17 » Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• December 21 » American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.

The temperature on March 8, 1919 was between 5.6 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.