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• Tjeerd Zoethout, Hindeloopen
• Adriana van der Peijl, Hoek, Terneuzen, ZLD, Nederland († 1990)
• Andrew Charles Stirling-Home-Drummond-Moray
• Adriana Pietronella Johanna Maria Schoffelen, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1999)
• Anna Catharina Hendriks, Nederweert
• * Geertruida Antonia Adriana van Pelt, Rotterdam
• Adrianus Lambertus Johannes van Bokhoven, Helmond († 1906)
• Amanda Kathe Lisbeth Bosze, Hannover (Dld)
• Aart Ferdi Vermaes, Sragen Kedoeng Banteng († 1963)
• Anna Maria Van Overbeek, Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1993)

• Bastiaan Dirk Theodorus van Kooten (1), Rhenen
• Cornelis Gerrits Plas (0), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Angenies van Barneveld (27), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aaltje de Groote (35), Zelhem
• Cornelis Timmerman (67), Ellewoutsdijk
• Abraham van Prooijen (72), Ooltgensplaat
• Anneke Donema (92), Rotterdam
• Alida Wegenwijs (Id 44) (77), Amsterdam
• Catharina Elisabeth Murray Bakker (26), Gemeente Gaasterland, Nederland
• Adriana van Deursen (83), Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1901 » Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal († 1986)
• 1901 » Joe Davis, English snooker player († 1978)
• 1902 » Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist († 2002)
• 1903 » John Williams, English-American actor († 1983)
• 1904 » Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator († 1948)
• 1907 » Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1908 » eden ahbez, Scottish-American songwriter and recording artist († 1995)
• 1908 » Lita Grey, American actress († 1995)
• 1910 » Miguel Najdorf, Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician († 1997)
• 1910 » Sulo Bärlund, Finnish shot putter († 1986)

• 1888 » Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (b. 1822)
• 1889 » Father Damien, Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)
• 1898 » Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, New Zealand commander and politician
• 1912 » Victims of the Titanic disaster:
• 1917 » János Murkovics, Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)
• 1927 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1938 » César Vallejo, Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1942 » Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1943 » Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1944 » Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Russian general (b. 1901)

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

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

• 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
• April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
• July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
• December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
• December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
• December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

The temperature on April 15, 1906 was between 0.2 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.