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• Aleida Johanna Arends, Losser († 1978)
• Aleida Veldhuis, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 2005)
• Alida van den Heuvel, 's-Gravenhage
• Alberdina Antonia Mijnlieff, Bodjonegoro, Indonesië († 2003)
• Adriana de BORST, Rotterdam († 1932)
• Alida van den Heuvel, 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana Mathildis van de Cloot, St-Lenaerts
• Albert Barelds, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 1989)
• Aleida Johanna Arends, Losser, 7581, Nederland († 1978)
• Alice Maria Cornelia Geldof, Merckem

• Andrew George Siegner (59), Summit, Somerset Co., Pennsylvania
• Aime Gustave Godtschalck, Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Adrianus van der Linden (88)
• Anna Catharina van den Eikhoff (41), Haarlem
• Antje Roos (76), Haarlem, Noord-Holland Nederland
• Anton Löffler (48), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Overwijk (61), Sneek, Nederland
• Alois Hoedl (66), Eudora (Douglas Co., Kansas)
• Aag Heeres (68), Hindeloopen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Elizabeth Hoogerwerf (0), Vlaardingen

• 1911 » Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer († 1976)
• 1912 » Frank Dilio, Canadian businessman († 1997)
• 1912 » Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia († 1988)
• 1912 » Hound Dog Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1975)
• 1913 » Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist († 2013)
• 1914 » Armen Alchian, American economist and academic († 2013)
• 1916 » Benjamin Libet, American neuropsychologist and academic († 2007)
• 1916 » Beverly Cleary, American author
• 1916 » Russell Garcia, American-New Zealander composer and conductor († 2011)
• 1917 » Helen Forrest, American singer and actress († 1999)

• 1885 » William Crowther, Dutch-Australian politician, 14th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1817)
• 1898 » Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian cardinal (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist and academic (b. 1842)
• 1906 » Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, Indian scholar, academic, and philanthropist (b. 1836)
• 1912 » Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (b. 1821)
• 1933 » Adelbert Ames, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Mississippi (b. 1835)
• 1937 » Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Turkish playwright and poet (b. 1852)
• 1938 » Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)

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

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

• 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
• April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
• August 6 » World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
• August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
• September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• November 23 » Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
• December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

The temperature on April 12, 1914 was between 4.4 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.