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• Adriana Johanna Maria IJzermans, Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1916)
• Adrianus de Graaf, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1991)
• Annie Ganser, Herten,, Limburg, Nederland († 1922)
• Alida Johanna Verhoeven, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1940)
• Anna Wilhelmine Wüllner, Tonnenheide 3244, Nutteln, D
• Aart Roskam, Barneveld († 1992)
• Adrianus Camphorst, Haarlemmermeer († 1914)
• Albert Scholten, Diffelen († 1915)
• Albertus Johannes Klaassen († 1973)
• Anna Wilhelmina de Jong, Warnsveld († 2001)

• Albertus Johannes Diender (57), Kampen
• Arend Keizer (56), Ruinerwold, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Jans Diender (57), Kampen
• Amanda Columbus Quattlebaum (71)
• Antonia Heethaar (71), Middel (Olst)
• ALFONS FRANCISCUS JACOBS (0), HEFFEN
• Anna Maria Rompa (63), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abel DELETANG (18), Chambon, 37290, France
• Antonio Cambra Penon (51), Pau,Francia
• Albertus Johannes Jansz Diender (57), Kampen, ov.nld

• 1909 » Fred Perry, English-Australian tennis player and academic († 1995)
• 1910 » Ester Boserup, Danish economist and author († 1999)
• 1911 » Big Joe Turner, American blues/R&B singer († 1985)
• 1912 » Perry Como, American singer and television host († 2001)
• 1912 » Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1992)
• 1912 » Walter Sisulu, South African politician († 2003)
• 1913 » Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English publisher and politician († 2000)
• 1914 » Boris Christoff, Bulgarian-Italian opera singer († 1993)
• 1914 » Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer, founded Balmain († 1982)
• 1917 » Bill Everett, American author and illustrator († 1973)

• 1889 » Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1941 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)

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. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
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.
• August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
• August 9 » Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
• August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
• August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
• November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
• November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.

The temperature on May 18, 1914 was between 10.2 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.