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• Berend IJdens, Dalen,Drenthe,Niederlande († 2014)
• Ambrósio Gesser, Antonio Carlos, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1944)
• Andries van den Berg, Streefkerk († 1987)
• Claude Emile Louis ROYER, Dunkerque... Hauts de France († 2014)
• Abraham ten Hove, Markelo († 1927)
• Bartha Cornelia Wolters († 2006)
• Anne Westerbeek, Medemblik, Nederland († 1980)
• Camille Albert Agapitus Croughs, Vliermaal, België († 2007)
• Derk Pardijs, Vorden († 2012)
• Aleida Margaretha HENDRIKS, Gendringen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2016)

• Christiaan Veltmann (65), Apeldoorn
• Albert Aker (0), Wervershoof, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Carl Jäger (70), Oberhausen
• Bernardus Boonk (73), Dongen
• Carl Moritz Emil Robert Cornelius von Bose (M.K.) (73), Grundhof, Befort, Luxemburg
• Carl Moritz Emil Robert Cornelius von Bose (73), Grundhof (L)
• Berend Ben Koops (89), Cawker City, KS
• Aaltje Bouma (0), Haulerwijk, Ooststellingwerf
• Aart Vrolijk (86), Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Alice Ellen Gale (66), Broadwater, New South Wales, Australia

• 1922 » Rory Calhoun, American actor († 1999)
• 1922 » Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer, created the Monokini († 1985)
• 1925 » Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina († 2003)
• 1925 » Aziz Sattar, Malaysian actor, comedian, singer and director († 2014)
• 1926 » Richard Anderson, American actor and producer († 2017)
• 1927 » Johnny Temple, American baseball player and coach († 1994)
• 1927 » Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author († 2002)
• 1928 » Don Burrows, Australian saxophonist, clarinet player, and flute player († 2020)
• 1929 » Larisa Bogoraz, Russian linguist and activist († 2004)
• 1929 » Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian general and politician, 68th President of Bolivia († 2018)

• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1920 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)
• 1928 » Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
• 1930 » Launceston Elliot, Scottish wrestler and weightlifter (b. 1874)
• 1934 » Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1863)
• 1937 » Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motorcycle racer (b. 1897)
• 1940 » Johnny Dodds, American clarinet player and saxophonist (b. 1892)
• 1944 » Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Antonius
15. Hendrikus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Helena
15. Grietje
16. Trijntje

• 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
• January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
• May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
• May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
• September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
• October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
• December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

The temperature on August 8, 1926 was between 6.7 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.