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• Anthonie Hoogendoorn, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• catharina m.h.(to) hannen, herten († 2005)
• Aaltje van der Schuur, Slochteren (NL) († 2003)
• Arnolda Steenbruggen, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1989)
• Christiaan Jacob Vahl, Monster, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1970)
• Carl Werner Palmquist, Austin, Travis, Texas, United States († 2018)
• Antonia Wilhelmina Arts, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1943)
• Alida Christina Iske, Amsterdam († 1994)
• Adrianus Smits, Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1984)
• Aaltje Gorte, Giethoorn († 2011)

• Anna Pijnappel (68), Den Haag
• Anna Catherina De Burger (64), Terneuzen, Nederland
• Catharina_Johanna_Elisabeth de Laurier (70), Amsterdam
• Clara Aten (50), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Weerstand (0), Urk
• Bernard Josef Ungrüh (60)
• Cornelis Kooijman (51), Heinenoord (Zuid-Holland)
• Ouwerling (0), Schiebroek
• Antonia Oostendorp (77), Deventer
• Cornelis Klaas Mantje (79), Texel

• 1915 » Gary Merrill, American actor († 1990)
• 1916 » Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor († 1990)
• 1917 » Wah Chang, Chinese-American artist and designer († 2003)
• 1919 » Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor
• 1920 » Augustus Rowe, Canadian physician and politician († 2013)
• 1920 » Louis Pauwels, French journalist and author († 1997)
• 1921 » Alan Whicker, Egyptian-English journalist († 2013)
• 1922 » Betsy Bloomingdale, American philanthropist and socialite († 2016)
• 1922 » Geoffrey Dutton, Australian historian and author († 1998)
• 1923 » Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli lawyer and politician, 9th President of Israel († 2016)

• 1903 » Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian and microbiologist (b. 1850)
• 1903 » Eduard Magnus Jakobson, Estonian missionary and engraver (b. 1847)
• 1913 » Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect and academic, designed Zagreb Central Station (b. 1851)
• 1915 » John Downer, Australian politician, 16th Premier of South Australia (b. 1843)
• 1917 » Jaan Mahlapuu, Estonian military pilot (b. 1894)
• 1921 » Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1873)
• 1922 » Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian engineer, invented the telephone (b. 1847)
• 1923 » Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
• 1934 » Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (b. 1847)
• 1937 » Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1900)

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.
• January 7 » Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
• January 18 » World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
• July 6 » The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
• September 4 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
• November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
• December 1 » Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)

The temperature on August 2, 1919 was between 14.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.