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• Albertus (Albert) Huisman, Speuld (Ermelo) († 1984)
• Aaltje Nijmeijer, Beilen, Drenthe, The Netherlands († 1912)
• Albert Fleet, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England († 1988)
• Albertha Bos, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland († 1980)
• Adrianus Franciscus Cornelius Kuijpers, Tilburg († 1912)
• Albertus Huisman, Ermelo,Gemeente Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1984)
• Alice Tuit, Paterson, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1996)
• Albertus Huisman, Ermelo († 1984)
• Anna Geertruida Immerentia de Munk, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Weggemans, De Mars, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland

• Barend Herman Dalenoort (0), Enschede {OV}
• Bernardus Hendrikus Reijnen (17), Nijmegen, Gemeente Nijmegen, Gelderland, Niederlande
• Arend Jan Lubberdink (57), Lochem
• Catharine Marie FEYE (73), Wildeshausen, Duitsland
• Aart van Dam (70), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Agatha Helena de Visser (78), Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Baatje Smits (18)
• Charlotte "Lottie" Todd (74), Pontotoc, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States
• César Henri GOEMAERE (48), Warneton, 54009, Hainaut, Belgique
• Aaltje OTTENS (0), Vasse (Tubbergen) Overijssel Netherlands

• 1909 » Clara Solovera, Chilean singer-songwriter († 1992)
• 1909 » James Mason, English actor, producer, and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1910 » Constance Cummings, British-based American actress († 2005)
• 1911 » Herta Oberheuser, German physician († 1978)
• 1911 » Max Frisch, Swiss playwright and novelist († 1991)
• 1912 » Arthur Berger, American composer and educator († 2003)
• 1914 » Angus MacLean, Canadian farmer and politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island († 2000)
• 1914 » Norrie Paramor, English composer, producer, and conductor († 1979)
• 1914 » Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1972)
• 1915 » Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist († 2006)

• 1879 » Gottfried Semper, German architect and educator, designed the Semper Opera House (b. 1803)
• 1886 » Emily Dickinson, American poet and author (b. 1830)
• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)

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. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
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.
• February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
• March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
• October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
• October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
• November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
• December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

The temperature on May 15, 1912 was between 9.7 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.