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• Albert de Breed, Terschelling († 1992)
• Dirk Reinier Geervliet, Hoek, Zeeland, Nederland († 1929)
• Bertha (Bettie) Gerritsen, Wijnaldum († 1990)
• Christiana Johanna Antonia Venmans, Goirle († 1920)
• Charles Anthony Brown, Hardin County, Kentucky († 1972)
• Cornelis Johannes Adrianus van Diesen, Berkel-Enschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1995)
• Annemarie Bürgel, Drebkau, Spree-Neisse, Brandenburg, Germany († 2017)
• Cornelis Johannes Adrianus van Diessen, Berkel-Enschot († 1995)
• Anke de Boer, Warga († 2005)
• Cecil Strangeway, Pocklington, Yorkshire East Riding, England († 1993)

• Antje Admiraal (70), Alkmaar
• Kolkman (0), Beerta
• Cornelis Blom (56), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Ludovicus de Boer (5), Rotterdam
• Agnes Hubertina Ramakers (1), Echt
• Adrianus de Wit (89), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles Louis MISSELIJN (80)
• Alexander Wilhelmus van Aubel (71), Meerssen, Limburg, Nederland
• Andrew CARNEGIE (83), Lenox, Berkshire County, Massachusettes, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Klaasdr Admiraal (70), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1913 » Bob Scheffing, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1913 » Paul Dupuis, Canadian actor († 1976)
• 1915 » Morris Weiss, American author and illustrator († 2014)
• 1916 » Johnny Claes, English-Belgian race car driver and trumpet player († 1956)
• 1919 » Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and manager († 2017)
• 1920 » Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player († 2002)
• 1920 » Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host († 2006)
• 1921 » Alex Haley, American historian and author († 1992)
• 1922 » John "Mule" Miles, American baseball player († 2013)
• 1923 » Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor († 2015)

• 1892 » Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813)
• 1903 » Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)
• 1908 » Khudiram Bose, Indian Bengali revolutionary (b. 1889)
• 1919 » Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Mary Sumner, English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (b. 1828)
• 1936 » Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1885)
• 1937 » Edith Wharton, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1862)
• 1939 » Jean Bugatti, German-Italian engineer (b. 1909)
• 1939 » Siegfried Flesch, Austrian fencer (b. 1872)
• 1945 » Stefan Jaracz, Polish actor and theater producer (b. 1883)

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 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• February 26 » President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
• April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
• 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.
• November 11 » Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
• December 21 » American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.

The temperature on August 11, 1919 was between 10.3 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.