About the day » Friday July 13, 1917Calender converter

• Benjamin H Harms, Hardin County, Iowa († 1990)
• Arie Veen, Ameide (Vijfheerenlanden), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Bartele Postma († 1982)
• Age Sakes Feenstra, St Nicolaasga, 8521, Nederland († 2008)
• Age Feenstra, St.Nicolaasga († 2008)
• Bernard Jacobs, Deurne (Vl.Br.), Vlaams-Brabant, België († 2006)
• Albertus Marinus Koldijk, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands († 2005)
• Albert Zuiderwijk, Den Haag († 2003)
• Alice Meylemans, Itegem, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1995)
• Adriana Maria Korswagen, Leiden

• Antje Drost (72), Franeker
• Albert Roosen (0), Overpelt, Limburg, België
• Anna Elisabeth Dobbelstein (78), Schinnen
• Johannes Josephus Schel (0), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Allegonda Catharina Scheer (18), Bedum
• Anna Maria Hubertina Johanne Prickaerts (77), Limmel
• Alijda Johanna Elisabeth de Monyé (58), 's-Gravenhage
• Aaltje Runderkamp (2), volendam, Nederland
• Anthonie Koomans van den Dries (79), Fijnaart, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Prickaerts (76), Limmel (Meerssen)

• 1913 » Dave Garroway, American journalist and television personality († 1982)
• 1913 » Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman († 2012)
• 1915 » Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese author and educator († 1989)
• 1918 » Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1918 » Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1918 » Ronald Bladen, American painter and sculptor († 1988)
• 1919 » Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China († 2020)
• 1919 » William F. Quinn, American lawyer († 2006)
• 1921 » Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer and conductor († 1999)
• 1922 » Leslie Brooks, American actress († 2011)

• 1893 » Young Man Afraid of His Horses, American tribal chief (b. 1836)
• 1896 » August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1907 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter and jurist (b. 1866)
• 1911 » Allan McLean, Scottish-Australian politician, 19th Premier of Victoria (b. 1840)
• 1921 » Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1922 » Martin Dies Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1870)
• 1927 » Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (b. 1870)
• 1934 » Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
• 1941 » Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)

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.
• February 23 » First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
• 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 11 » King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
• June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
• 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".
• November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.

The temperature on July 13, 1917 was between 9.4 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.