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• Adriaan van Rijsbergen († 1984)
• Albert Gaethofs, Houthalen († 1981)
• Anthonius Petrus Vogelpoel, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Alida Scholten, Gasselternijveen, Gemeente Aa en Hunze, Drenthe, Nederland († 2007)
• Adriaan van Rijsbergen, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1984)
• Adrianus Hendricus Turk, Voorhout, Teylingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Alphons Loduvicus Notermans, Ulestraten, Nederland († 1986)
• Albertine Schoukens († 2006)
• Alice Nellie Judy, Salem, Fremont, Idaho, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Berendina Blom, Deventer († 1995)

• Adriana Maassen van den Brink (46), Arnhem
• Anna Christina van Geffen (0), Appeltern, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aalt Brummel (78), Elburg
• Adriana Maassen van den Brink (46), Arnhem
• Antoon Oosterdag (18), Den Haag
• Anna Catharina Meulesteen (81), Tilburg
• Adriana van Avendonk (67), Oisterwijk
• Alida Anna Catharina Blekkingh, Alkmaar
• Berend Soer (63), Havelte
• Allegonda van de Sijp (84), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1915 » Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress († 1959)
• 1915 » Henry Kuttner, American author († 1958)
• 1915 » Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1916 » Anthony Caruso, American actor († 2003)
• 1917 » R. G. Armstrong, American actor and playwright († 2012)
• 1918 » Bobby Doerr, American baseball player and coach († 2017)
• 1919 » Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer († 2012)
• 1919 » Roger Lemelin, Canadian author and screenwriter († 1992)
• 1920 » Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer († 2012)
• 1921 » Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist († 1992)

• 1917 » Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer and playwright (b. 1861)
• 1918 » David Kolehmainen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1885)
• 1918 » George E. Ohr, American potter (b. 1857)
• 1920 » Karl Binding, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1841)
• 1922 » James McGowen, Australian politician, 18th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1855)
• 1928 » Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician, philosopher, and author (b. 1873)
• 1932 » Grigore Constantinescu, Romanian priest and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1938 » Suzanne Valadon, French painter (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Jovan Dučić, Serbian-American poet and diplomat (b. 1871)

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

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

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
• February 3 » The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
• May 16 » The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
• August 8 » World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
• August 16 » The Battle of Lake Baikal was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
• August 30 » Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
• October 30 » World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments

The temperature on April 7, 1918 was between 6.7 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.