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• Albertje van Dijken, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 1919)
• (16n)Theodorus Joannes (Theo) van Besouw, Tilburg († 2007)
• Adrianus Jacobus Schoorl-, Tilburg, Nederland († 1980)
• Antoinette Steiner, Massachusetts († 1978)
• Albertje van Dijken, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1919)
• Barbara Zieltjes, Alphen aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Adriana Johanna Baars, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Klaziena Kloosterboer, Eenrum († 1919)
• Adriana-Petronella van Gurp, Hedikhuizen († 2001)
• Allen Jay Gross, Jackson Center, Shelby Co. Ohio († 2003)

• Berend Talens (35), Warnsveld
• Anthonij Meijer (35), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Anthonie Marinus Adriaan Naijen (16), Rotterdam
• Alice Jeanette Hermine Eulderink (0), Hengelo
• Andries KES (66), Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ane Kjerstine Jensdatter Frost (79), Hundborg Sogn, Thisted Amt
• Albert Marie Lippens (1), Nederland Zeeland Sluis Aardenburg
• Andries de Pater (23), Woerden
• Adriana Maria Seegelaar (86), Breda
• Alice Jeannette Hermine Eulderink (0), Hengelo

• 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.
• January 16 » Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
• February 6 » The American Legion is founded.
• February 11 » Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
• May 19 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
• June 23 » Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
• December 3 » After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.

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.