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• Agnes van den Hoven, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Albertine, Lévis, QC, Canada
• Adamina Jannetje Groeneveld, Willemstad
• Adamina Jannetje Groeneveld, Willemstad († 1998)
• Anna Boekelman, Titonka, Kossuth County, Iowa († 2001)
• Alida Maria Oud, Westwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bot, rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Aaltjen Olthoff, Warnsveld, gem. Zutphen, GD, Nederland († 1997)
• Adriana van Schaik, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• André De Schepper, Sint-Kruis, België († 1963)

• Arnolda van de Wiel (67), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Anna Kathonia Ott (73), Tipton, Moniteau, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Poppes BOERSMA (61), Rottum
• Aaltje Haanstra (55), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Annie Clemmer Funk (38), Atlantic Ocean on the Titanic
• Adriana Cornelisd (Duin) X van Duijn (62), EaZ
• Adriana van Duijn (62), Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Aaltje Herder (82), 't Zandt, Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anthonia den Boode (71), Utrecht
• Binnekamp, Nunspeet

• 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)
• 1912 » Kim Il-sung, North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea († 1994)
• 1912 » William Congdon, American-Italian painter and sculptor († 1998)
• 1915 » Elizabeth Catlett, African-American sculptor and illustrator († 2012)
• 1916 » Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman († 1982)
• 1916 » Helene Hanff, American author and screenwriter († 1997)

• 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. Jacob
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

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

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
• January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
• March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
• April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
• July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
• October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
• November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.

The temperature on April 15, 1912 was between 2.7 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.