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• Antonia Peters, Ooij, Gelderland, Nederland († 1920)
• Antoinette Steiner, Massachusetts († 1978)
• Albert Kerbel, Sterling, Logan, Colorado, Verenigde Staten († 1996)
• Adriana-Petronella van Gurp, Hedikhuizen († 2001)
• Antonius Gijsbertus van Hensbergen, Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Adrianus Johannes (Adrie) Crusio 1, Bergen Op Zoom, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1984)
• Allen Jay Gross, Jackson Center, Shelby Co. Ohio († 2003)
• Albertus WIERSINGA, Meppel Drenthe Netherlands († 1942)
• Albertje van Dijken, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1919)
• Antonius Peters, Ubbergen († 1920)

• Adriana Maria Seegelaar (86), Breda
• Anthonie Marinus Adriaan Naijen (16), Rotterdam
• Augusta Joanna De Wachter (0), Bornem
• Anthonij MEIJER (35), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Joannes van Oirschot (3), Tilburg
• Aart Slingerland (53), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Joannes van Oirschot (3), Tilburg, Nederland
• Anthonie Marinus Adriaan Naijen (16), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• A. Nattekaas (65)
• Anne Wesseling (0), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 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)

• 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 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• February 11 » Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
• March 23 » In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
• May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
• May 15 » The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
• May 19 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.

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.