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• Adriaan van 't Leven, Krabbendijke († 1917)
• Adrianus Van Hal, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Anna Braun, Gangelt, Dld († 1966)
• Adrianus Theodorus van Kasteren, Liempde († 1992)
• Agnes Erdahl, fortasse, somewhere in IA or MN († 1972)
• Anna Marie Pettersen, Reipå, Meløy, Nordland, Norway († 1958)
• Adriana Catharina Maaskant († 2001)
• Antje Lieuwes Tiemersma († 1980)
• Anna Zachtleven, Surhuisterveen, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1946)
• Knoop, Breukelen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1917)

• Juijn (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Admiraal (79), Limmen
• Anna Cornelia van Santvoord (51), Tilburg
• Anthonie Veldmeijer (ook Veltmeijer) (58), Hilversum
• Anna Cornelia van Santvoord (51), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Blitterswijk (64), Culemborg (GL)
• Anna Cornelia van Santvoort (51), Tilburg
• Anna Elisabeth de Held (76), Vlissingen
• Abraham Peters (60), Schiedam
• Adriaan Huijbregts (84), Ginneken, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1910 » John Banner, Austrian actor († 1973)
• 1911 » Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient († 2018)
• 1912 » Jackson Pollock, American painter († 1956)
• 1918 » Harry Corbett, English puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter († 1989)
• 1918 » Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician († 2004)
• 1919 » Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot († 2002)
• 1921 » Vytautas Norkus, Lithuanian–American basketball player († 2014)
• 1922 » Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founded Anna Records († 2014)
• 1922 » Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)
• 1924 » Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet († 1976)

• 1903 » Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1912 » Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist and theorist (b. 1819)
• 1918 » John McCrae, Canadian soldier, physician, and author (b. 1872)
• 1921 » Mustafa Suphi, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1883)
• 1930 » Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano and poet (b. 1878)
• 1935 » Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1859)
• 1937 » Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1939 » W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1942 » Edward Siegler, American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1881)

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

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

• 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 6.5 million citizens.
• February 5 » The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
• April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
• July 12 » The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
• July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
• October 15 » World War I: Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage.
• November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.

The temperature on January 28, 1917 was between -7.2 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -4.9 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.