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• Gerrit Helsloot, Dordrecht († 2023)
• Catholina Sara van den Broecke, Breskens († 2002)
• Anna Mae Doane († 2008)
• Erzsébet Molnár, Nagykörös († 2004)
• Denis Maria Jozef Hautvast, Schinnen († 1944)
• Dirk Bruggemann, Winschoten († 2011)
• (Stillborn) KRAMER, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1940)
• Francina Adriana Middelkoop, Den Haag, den Haag, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Dirk Willem Beekman († 1998)
• Cornelis Jozef (Cor) Karregat († 2020)

• Amélia Maria da Silveira (81), Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Antoon Krewinkel (36), Schaesberg (L
• Aagje Kop (68), Sliedrecht
• Anna Elisabeth Coumans (68), Stein
• Sluiter, Franciscus (Frans) (56), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Anna Elisabeth Coumans (68), Beek, gemeente Beek, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Staghouwer (72), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Staghouwer (72), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Vermaas (65), Oud-Beijerland, Hoeksche Waard,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina JOOSTEN (63), Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1937 » Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician, 2nd President of Rwanda († 1994)
• 1937 » Richard Fariña, American singer-songwriter and author († 1966)
• 1938 » Pete Dawkins, American football player, colonel, and politician
• 1939 » Jim Bouton, American baseball player and journalist († 2019)
• 1939 » Lidiya Skoblikova, Russian speed skater and coach
• 1939 » Lynn Seymour, Canadian ballerina and choreographer
• 1939 » Robert Tear, Welsh tenor and conductor († 2011)
• 1941 » Norman Stone, Scottish-English historian, author, and academic († 2019)
• 1942 » Ann Packer, English sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper
• 1942 » Dick Allen, American baseball player and tenor

• 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)
• 1945 » Frederick Bligh Bond, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889)

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

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

• 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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
• April 7 » Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
• May 26 » World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.
• June 10 » World War II: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
• August 15 » An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiserElli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
• September 14 » Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
• November 25 » World War II: First flights of both the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.

The temperature on March 8, 1940 was between -2.7 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.