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• Aaltje Knevel, Nunspeet († 2009)
• Antonius Wilhelmus Schalkx, Liempde († 1975)
• Anna Mae Bochicchio, Dunmore, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Adriana Klasina Spruijt, Sliedrecht († 1975)
• Anna Maria Verhagen, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1973)
• Antje de Wilde, amsterdam, Nederland († 1994)
• Andrea Pieternella van Welsum, Dordrecht, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2011)
• Annetje Jannetje Smit, Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Andries Adrianus Gerardus Teders, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1987)
• Alberte Elisabeth Marie-Jose COLSON, Dilsen-Stokkem, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie († 1990)

• "Engelbert" Matthias Ferdinand Hubert von Eynatten (73), Schloss Trips, Geilenkirchen, Allemagne
• Adrianus van WIJK Azn (88), Den Bommel, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Arie Drinkwaard (0), Hardinxveld
• Aalbart Blommers (54), Gameren
• Spoelder (4)
• Aleida Gezina Loman (67), Nijverdal (Hellendoorn)
• Arthur Goodall (21), France
• Anna Maria van Maren (0), Herpen
• Anna Maria Josephina (Maria) Streffing (63), Amsterdam
• Anna Elisabeth STOCKMANS (87), Beringen (Limburg) (B)

• 1911 » Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish-American model († 1992)
• 1911 » Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress († 1998)
• 1912 » Ace Parker, American baseball and football player († 2013)
• 1912 » Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician, 31st United States Solicitor General († 2004)
• 1912 » Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, American inventor († 2006)
• 1913 » Hans Ruesch, Swiss racing driver and author († 2007)
• 1914 » Robert N. Thompson, American-Canadian chiropractor and politician († 1997)
• 1918 » Birgit Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano († 2005)
• 1918 » Joan Benham, English actress († 1981)
• 1919 » Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and screenwriter († 2007)

• 1911 » Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist (b. 1862)
• 1917 » Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (b. 1829)
• 1917 » Clara Ayres, American nurse (b. 1880)
• 1919 » Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist, author, and poet (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Karl Mantzius, Danish actor and director (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Dorothy Levitt, English racing driver and journalist (b. 1882)
• 1927 » Harold Geiger, American pilot and lieutenant (b. 1884)
• 1934 » Cass Gilbert, American architect (b. 1859)
• 1935 » Paul Dukas, French composer, critic, and educator (b. 1865)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Neeltje
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 6.3 million citizens.
• January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
• January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
• July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
• August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
• August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
• November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

The temperature on May 17, 1915 was between 4.6 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.