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• Antonia ter Horst, Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1953)
• Alexander Jacobs, Amsterdam († 1944)
• Arthur N. Lipsey, Utah († 1984)
• Betsie (Bertha Oda) van Tartwijk, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1971)
• Ann McGrann († 1999)
• Apolonia Adriana van der Horst, Fijnaart,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)
• Antonius CRUYSBERGH, Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland († 2000)
• Arie, Marie Middag, Zeist († 1990)
• Arthur van Roekel († 2004)
• Hallema, Lolle, Tzum-Friesland († 2003)

• Arend Theodorus Tulleken (47), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Alberta Johanna Gerritsen (61), Doorwerth
• Arie Jansz van de Merwe (30), Dubbeldam, zh.nld
• Christiaan de Kok (78), Leiden
• Brigitta Vermassen (63), Hillegem
• Alberta Johanna Gerritsen (62)
• Adriana Huijsman (70), Strijen
• Albertus Quirinus Arkesteijn (24), Delft
• Adriana van Soest (72), Vrijeban
• Adriana Woutersdr. van Soest (72), Delft

• 1914 » Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna († 1969)
• 1915 » Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire († 2004)
• 1917 » Beebe Steven Lynk, African-American chemist and author († 1948)
• 1917 » Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer († 1957)
• 1918 » İlhan Berk, Turkish poet and author († 2008)
• 1918 » Tasker Watkins, Welsh soldier, judge, and politician, Victoria Cross recipient († 2007)
• 1919 » Jocelyn Brando, American actress († 2005)
• 1920 » Mustafa Khalil, Egyptian lawyer and politician, 77th Prime Minister of Egypt († 2008)
• 1920 » Robert Fryer, American playwright and producer († 2000)
• 1920 » Ron Suart, English football player and manager († 2015)

• 1886 » Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
• 1889 » William Allingham, Irish-English poet and scholar (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Renée Vivien, English-French poet (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Marcel Proust, French author and critic (b. 1871)
• 1927 » Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona Italian race car driver, explorer, and politician (b. 1871)
• 1936 » V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1940 » Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian and academic (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet and author (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Chris Watson, Chilean-Australian journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
• 1941 » Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)

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 23 » First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
• March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
• June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
• June 28 » World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
• July 12 » The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
• December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.

The temperature on November 18, 1917 was between 6.7 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.