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• Adelheid Voss, Zwartemeer, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1997)
• Adelheid Voss, Zwartemeer
• Anna Maria van der Ploeg, Pijnacker, Nederland († 2005)
• Albertus Gezinus Kiers, Emmen († 1996)
• Alida Arnolda Aloysia Arntz († 2000)
• Adriana Haasnoot, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Anthony Abraham Gijsbert Woltering, Vlissingen († 2001)
• Anna Josepha Maria van der Ven, Dordrecht († 1991)
• * Roelof Plieger, Ameide († 1960)
• Achien Frouwe Ubieana (Jean) TAMMES, Brooklyn Kings County New York U.S.A († 2006)

• Adrianus van De Kruijs (81), Weert, Gemeente Weert, Limburg, Nederland
• Aukje Eises Eizenga (55), Oldeboorn
• Abraham Jesaias van Buuren (93), Amsterdam
• Aleida Kupper (2), Bladel en Netersel
• Aaltje Stam (2), Egmond aan Zee
• Aaltje Engels Stam (2), Egmond aan Zee
• Barend Jacob Breedveld (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Haubrich (54), Rotterdam
• Adriana Gerarda de VOS (44), Utrecht, 5553, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aafje Bakker (44), Venhuizen

• 1911 » Christian Fouchet, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of the Interior († 1974)
• 1916 » Shelby Foote, American historian and author († 2005)
• 1917 » Ruth Aaronson Bari, American mathematician († 2005)
• 1919 » Kim Heungsou, Korean painter and educator († 2014)
• 1920 » Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter († 2005)
• 1920 » Gemini Ganesan, Indian actor and director († 2002)
• 1921 » Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter and illustrator († 2019)
• 1922 » Jack Froggatt, English footballer († 1993)
• 1922 » Stanley Cohen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2020)
• 1923 » Hubertus Brandenburg, Swedish bishop († 2009)

• 1902 » Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847)
• 1905 » Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
• 1910 » Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
• 1917 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1840)
• 1922 » Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1847)
• 1923 » Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Gregory VII of Constantinople (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Charles W. Chesnutt, American lawyer, author, and activist (b. 1858)

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. Antonius

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.
• May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
• November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
• November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
• December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
• December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
• December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

The temperature on November 17, 1917 was between 5.4 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.