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• Andrew Newell Wyeth, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Adrianus Ludikhuize, Middelburg († 1999)
• Alice Gwendolyn BUROW, Nebraska,Nemaha,UNITED STATES († 2001)
• Anna Maria Theresia Thomas, Kerkrade, Limburg, Niederlande († 1990)
• Dik, Groningen
• Bastiaan (Bas) Schaalje, Goes († 1992)
• Antonuis Lambertus Hobert, (OV) Nijverdal († 1917)
• Antje van der Hoek, Opende, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Catharina van Es, Leiden
• Arie van der Waal, Den Haag († 1940)

• Aldeheide Goldstuecker (74), Weissensee Cemetary, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany
• Alberdina Helena van Zutphen, Raamsingel 44, Haarlem
• Blain Malone (38), France and Flanders
• Bernhard Rosendahl (71), Buschhausen
• Alexandre Stanislas Pierre de Dampierre (54)
• Boas Johannes Christiaan Walraven van der Kloes (60), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Veenstra (65), Hengelo
• Bertha de Hoop (22), Emmen
• Auke Jans Leistra (64), Leeuwarden
• Constance Jane Kammeron (33)

• 1915 » Emanuel Papper, American anesthesiologist, professor, and author († 2002)
• 1915 » Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, († 2007)
• 1916 » Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper († 1974)
• 1917 » Andrew Wyeth, American artist († 2009)
• 1917 » Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier and pilot († 2014)
• 1917 » Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Indian statesman († 2006)
• 1918 » Doris Grumbach, American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist
• 1918 » Mary Glen-Haig, English fencer († 2014)
• 1918 » Rusty Dedrick, American swing and bebop jazz trumpeter († 2009)
• 1918 » Vivian Mason, American actress († 2009)

• 1892 » Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented baseball (b. 1820)
• 1910 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1887)
• 1926 » Charles Wood Irish composer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)
• 1931 » Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor (b. 1877)
• 1935 » Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871)

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.
• March 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
• June 5 » World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
• June 23 » In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
• July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
• October 31 » World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
• November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".

The temperature on July 12, 1917 was between 7.0 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.