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• Delmar Dean Webb, Stevens County, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Cornelis Aart Gerrit Dam († 1994)
• Albertus VAN ES, Rumst,2840,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2001)
• Barbara Cornelia van Rijsbergen, Oud en Nieuw Gastel († 1998)
• Blanche Henrietta Luchtenburg, Orange City, Sioux County († 2000)
• Ad van Bragt, Beek en Donk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• *Jacobus Gerard Rouw, Hoek († 1987)
• Ernest Alfred Christopher BLACKBURN, Lambeth, Surrey, England († 1985)
• Elsa Johanna Gijsel († 2001)
• Berendje Ridderbusch, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 2012)

• Adriaan van der VLIS (0), Vlaardingen, 6300, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Geijtenbeek (65), Stoutenburg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Brouwer (61), Wassenaar, Nederland
• Anna Gertruda WILLEMS (29), Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland
• Abraham Grootenboer (74), Rotterdam
• Antje van der Sloep (67), Lippenhuizen
• Anna Catharina Hufkens (64), Geel, België
• Baukje Sjoerds de Boer (35)
• Abraham Grootenboer (74), Rotterdam
• Coralie Elisa PATERNOTTE (19), Soignies (Zinnik), Henegouwen, België

• 1916 » Huw Wheldon, Welsh-English broadcaster († 1986)
• 1916 » W. B. Young, Scottish rugby player and physician († 2013)
• 1917 » David Tomlinson, English actor († 2000)
• 1917 » Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer († 2013)
• 1917 » Lenox Hewitt, Australian public servant († 2020)
• 1919 » Eva Perón, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina († 1952)
• 1920 » Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor († 1985)
• 1921 » Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs, English historian and academic († 2016)
• 1921 » Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author († 1985)
• 1922 » Darren McGavin, American actor and director († 2006)

• 1896 » H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1861)
• 1902 » Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (b. 1818)
• 1917 » Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)
• 1922 » Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)
• 1925 » William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
• 1940 » George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 » James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)

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.
• June 21 » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.
• September 18 » The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
• September 22 » The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
• October 9 » The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
• 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.)

The temperature on May 7, 1919 was between 4.1 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.