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• Catherine White, Griffin, Spalding, Georgia, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Armand de Vasselot de Régné († 2003)
• Anna de Roij († 1947)
• Albertus Johannes Weda, Castricum, North Holland, Netherlands († 1997)
• Adam Veenhof, Veenhof, Drenthe, Nederland († 1919)
• Springer, Halle an der Saale, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• August Pieter Klink, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie († 1919)
• Armand comte de Vasselot de Régné, Saint-Cyr-l'École (Yvelines) († 2003)
• Aaltje van Ommen, Gemeente Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland († 2001)
• Augusta E. GERLACH, Darke County,Ohio († 1949)

• Cornelis van Elven (73), Zaandam
• Cornelis Leegwater (0), Nieuwe Niedorp, Hollands Kroon, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Leegwater (0), Nieuwe Niedorp
• Arnoldina Cornelia Snoep (0), Wemeldinge, Zeeland, Nederland
• Dirkje Teunis de Ruijter (67), Hoogland
• Catharina Paulina Huijbens (52), Bloemendaal
• Anna Groen (71), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Anna Rudd Hopgood [K 8] (51), East Prairie, Mississippi, Missouri
• Ann Janette HAYWARD (71), Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Abraham Knobbe (62), Ginneken en Bavel

• 1916 » Edward Pinkowski, American writer, journalist and Polonia historian († 2020)
• 1916 » Ioan Dicezare, Romanian general and pilot († 2012)
• 1917 » Oliver Crawford, American screenwriter and author († 2008)
• 1918 » Guy Gibson, Anglo-Indian commander and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient († 1944)
• 1918 » Sid Bernstein, American record producer († 2013)
• 1919 » Margaret Burbidge, English-American astrophysicist and academic († 2020)
• 1919 » Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic († 1971)
• 1920 » Charles Gibson, American ethnohistorian († 1985)
• 1920 » Percy Mayfield, American R&B singer-songwriter († 1984)
• 1922 » Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright († 1987)

• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1928 » Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect, designed the Beurs van Berlage (b. 1856)
• 1935 » Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician and academic (b. 1851)

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 17 » The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
• February 21 » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
• May 15 » Greek occupation of Smyrna. During the occupation, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks; those responsible are punished by Greek commander Aristides Stergiades.
• July 27 » The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.
• August 8 » The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 is signed. It establishes peaceful relations between Afghanistan and the UK, and confirms the Durand line as the mutual border. In return, the UK is no longer obligated to subsidize the Afghan government.
• November 7 » The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.

The temperature on August 12, 1919 was between 8.5 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.