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• Agnes Cornelia de Jong, Alphen en Riel († 1995)
• Aaltje Knauff, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Angèle Somers, Boom († 2000)
• Anna Gezina Bruns, Oomsberg
• Aaltje Hulleman, Genemuiden, Nederland († 1969)
• Cassie Marilla Harmon, Verenigde Statn († 2008)
• Alberta Cornelia van Wijk, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Albert Delwiche, Sint-Truiden, België († 2009)
• Clara Kleene († 1999)
• Albert Brees, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgique († 2003)

• Arie Peetoom (0), Buiksloot
• Adriana de Kock (90), Raamsdonk
• Anna Gesina Josephina Leitz (77), zeist
• Anna Maria Holderikx (51), Den Haag
• Anna Gerharda Piepers (30), Zutphen, Nederland
• Arnoldus Martinus van Wichen (23), Amsterdam
• Anthonie BEDET (83), Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arie Peetoom (0), Buiksloot, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adelaide Australia Shore (68), Brewarrina, NSW
• Albertus Jacobus Sap (83), Amsterdam

• 1917 » Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer († 1988)
• 1917 » Hubertus Ernst, Dutch bishop († 2017)
• 1917 » Lloyd Bott, Australian public servant († 2004)
• 1917 » Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist († 2007)
• 1918 » Betty Ford, American wife of Gerald Ford, 40th First Lady of the United States († 2011)
• 1918 » Glendon Swarthout, American author and academic († 1992)
• 1919 » Ian Smith, Zimbabwean lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia († 2007)
• 1921 » Franco Corelli, Italian tenor and actor († 2003)
• 1921 » Herman van Raalte, Dutch footballer († 2013)
• 1921 » Jan Novák, Czech composer († 1984)

• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)

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 31 » The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, during a campaign for shorter working hours.
• February 26 » President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
• March 2 » The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
• June 21 » Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
• September 18 » The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.

The temperature on April 8, 1919 was between 2.5 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.