About the day » Sunday March 17, 1918Calender converter

• Ardina van den Oetelaar, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• Barteld Siebrand, Kampen,Gemeente Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1999)
• Alida Maria Hermsen, Utrecht († 2001)
• Koster, Ferwerderadeel
• Albertus Aliysius Van Laer, Bornem († 2001)
• Abraham Meerkerk, Leerdam († 1993)
• Aaltje Mintjes, Oldemarkt († 1918)
• Barbara Goedegebuure, Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1994)
• Abraham Bolhaar, Hengelo († 1993)
• Adriana Tona Kesteloo, Kerkwerve, Zeeland, Nederland († 2004)

• Ann Jones (66), United States
• Aagje Huisman (74), de polder De Volharding (Texel)
• Arnoldus Sanders (47), Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alfred Ranger (83), Ste-Marthe, Québec
• Antje van der Woude (19), Eierland (Texel, NH)
• Anna Adriana Bellekom (38), Hof van Delft
• Anna Wilhelmina Petronella Henrièetta (Henrietta) Christina Sophia Pistorius- (89), 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Augustinus Cabooter (54), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Snijders (74), Wageningen, Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aleida Snijders (74), Wageningen

• 1912 » Bayard Rustin, American activist († 1987)
• 1914 » Sammy Baugh, American football player and coach († 2008)
• 1915 » Bill Roycroft, Australian equestrian rider († 2011)
• 1915 » Ray Ellington, English drummer and bandleader († 1985)
• 1915 » Robert S. Arbib Jr., American ornithologist, writer and conservationist († 1987)
• 1919 » Nat King Cole, American singer, pianist, and television host († 1965)
• 1920 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 1st President of Bangladesh († 1975)
• 1921 » Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician, 12th Israeli Minister of Communications († 2009)
• 1922 » Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher († 2014)
• 1924 » Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator († 2013)

• 1893 » Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (b. 1832)
• 1917 » Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
• 1926 » Aleksei Brusilov, Georgian-Russian general (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)

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. Helena
14. Geertruida
15. Margaretha
16. Grietje

• 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.
• April 23 » World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
• June 10 » The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMSSzent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
• August 16 » The Battle of Lake Baikal was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
• November 3 » The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
• November 13 » World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
• December 1 » Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.

The temperature on March 17, 1918 was between 1.2 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.