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• Cicero Adolphus Moise, Wananish, Columbus, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1944)
• Berend Meijer, Avereest († 2010)
• Anneke Damen, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• Alida Johanna Haverkate († 1990)
• Cassie Thomas Cradic, Piedmont, Wayne, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1999)
• Catharina Petronella Potjewijd († 2014)
• Adrian Putnam Ralph *, Barrow in Furness Lancashire, United Kingdom († 2013)
• Antonia Gertruda Josephina van den Beten, Sambeek († 1984)
• Alfons Van de Kerkhof, Zoerle-Parwijs, België, Westerlo († 2012)
• Andries Ruys, Amsterdam († 1969)

• Annegien Speckmann (33), Bedum
• Adriana Christina Schoonemeijer (69), Schiedam
• Adriaan van der Wensch (0), Hedikhuizen
• Adriana van Hooft (76), Loon op Zand
• Aaltje Lourens (84), 's-Gravenhage
• Bareld Wiegers (0), Morige, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaan Breel (59), Middelburg, Nederland
• Adrian J. de Wit (50), St. Cloud, Groot Brittanië
• Antonie Lockhorst (1), Rotterdam
• Jantje Van Der Weide (0), Zwinderscheveld

• 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)
• 1925 » Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor († 2015)

• 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. Gerardus
13. Hendrikus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Albert
16. Dirk

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

• 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 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 6.7 million citizens.
• January 5 » The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
• April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
• May 1 » German troops enter Munich to suppress the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
• June 11 » Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
• June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
• December 26 » Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.

The temperature on March 17, 1919 was between 2.8 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.