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• Alberta van Geresteijn, Barneveld
• Adrianus Lambertus Brok, Drunen
• Ambrosius Dewin, Groot-Bijgaarden († 1984)
• ANAGELE CATHARINA BOSTEELS, BUGGENHOUT,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1984)
• Aartje Drost, Rhenen, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1993)
• Albertus Wilhelmus Remmerswaal, Wassenaar
• Adriana Ros, Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland Nederland († 1912)
• Aart Barendregt, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1969)
• Adolf Driessen, Odenkirchen, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany († 1971)
• Aleida Susanna Smit, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1990)

• Antje Jans de Boer (59), Hollum, Ameland
• Arendje Tuijt (40), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van Osenbruggen, Rijswijk, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aagje Blom (22)
• Aaltje den Bleker (18), Ter Aar (Korteraar)
• Andries Dekker (14), Kallenkote (Steenwijkerwold)
• Alida Hendriks (57), Rotterdam
• August François Guillaume de Pineda (41), Batavia
• Adrianus SCHOUTEN (68), Dubbeldam
• Antheunis de BREE (79), Middelburg,Gemeente Middelburg,ZEELAND,NETHERLANDS

• 1907 » Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist († 1931)
• 1909 » Clara Solovera, Chilean singer-songwriter († 1992)
• 1909 » James Mason, English actor, producer, and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1910 » Constance Cummings, British-based American actress († 2005)
• 1911 » Herta Oberheuser, German physician († 1978)
• 1911 » Max Frisch, Swiss playwright and novelist († 1991)
• 1912 » Arthur Berger, American composer and educator († 2003)
• 1914 » Angus MacLean, Canadian farmer and politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island († 2000)
• 1914 » Norrie Paramor, English composer, producer, and conductor († 1979)
• 1914 » Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1972)

• 1879 » Gottfried Semper, German architect and educator, designed the Semper Opera House (b. 1803)
• 1886 » Emily Dickinson, American poet and author (b. 1830)
• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)

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

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

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
• January 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
• January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
• May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
• May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.

The temperature on May 15, 1911 was between 9.1 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.