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• Antonia van Brummen, Diepenveen († 1992)
• Benjamin (Bennie) Samuel, Deventer († 1920)
• Anna Zuiderduin, De Zilk, Noordwijkerhout († 1999)
• Augustus Arnoldus van Campen, Alkmaar, NH, The Netherlands († 1985)
• Anna Charlotte Loohuizen, Bandoeng, Nederlands Oost-Indië († 1983)
• Albert van Dijk, Meeden, Groningen, Nederland († 2007)
• Delia Katherine Burma, Pearl Creek Township, Beadle, South Dakota, United States († 2015)
• Benignus Richardus Celestinus Edmondus Van Beckhoven, Mol († 1998)
• Arie Cornelis Geils, Den Helder († 2002)
• Anne - Anna Maria Bessems, Bemelen († 1978)

• Catharina Cornelia Bothma (38)
• Anna Dernison (63), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Arnoldus van den Bogaard (83), Uden
• Annie Pearl Fulkerson (23), Millwood, Grayson County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Apollonia (Pauline) Maria Antonia van Gent (69), Helmond, Nederland
• Antonius johannes Borgsteede (2), Amsterdam
• Christina Adriana van den Heuvel (76), 's-Gravenhage
• Amelia Scherbeijn (56), IJzendijke
• Adriaan van Meer (78), Etten-Leur
• Anna Catharina Rosa Bouts (57), Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland

• 1917 » Christiane Rochefort, French author († 1998)
• 1917 » Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey († 2015)
• 1917 » Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager († 2001)
• 1917 » Phyllis Diller, American actress, comedian, and voice artist († 2012)
• 1918 » Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan soldier and politician, President of Guatemala († 2003)
• 1918 » Red Sovine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1980)
• 1920 » Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser († 2005)
• 1920 » Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish businessman, 7th President of the International Olympic Committee († 2010)
• 1921 » George Barnes, American guitarist, producer, and songwriter († 1977)
• 1921 » Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer († 1955)

• 1900 » Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
• 1907 » Hector Malot, French author and critic (b. 1830)
• 1912 » Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)
• 1918 » Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family
• 1925 » Lovis Corinth, German painter (b. 1858)
• 1928 » Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico (b. 1880)
• 1928 » Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842)
• 1932 » Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor, singer, and director (b. 1862)
• 1935 » George William Russell, Irish poet and painter (b. 1867)
• 1942 » Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (b. 1861)

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 16 » Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
• 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.
• April 16 » Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
• May 16 » A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
• July 6 » The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
• October 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

The temperature on July 17, 1919 was between 10.2 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.