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• Alina-Maria VAN LAETHEM, Burst, Erpe-Mere, 9420, Oost-Vlanderen, Vlaanderen, België († 1997)
• Aaltje de Haan, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Sennema, Onstwedde
• Kállai, Furta, 4141, Magyarország († 1911)
• Agnes Petronella van Erp, Kerkdriel († 1994)
• Adrien Henri Jacob Glasius, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Aleida Knol, Stuifzand
• Adrianus Joannes Cornelis Jongbloets, Tilburg († 1911)
• Aleida Lahuis, Bookholt († 1950)
• Albertje de Jong, Bovenknijpe († 2007)

• Antje van Leeuwen (33), Aarlanderveen
• Anna Helena Gertrud - Geertruida Fullen (86), Sellingerbeetse Gr Neth
• Anna Maria Docquier (49), Nieuwerkerken, België
• Andries Smies (52), Winnebago County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Gregorius Cornelis van der Klugt (0), Monster
• Visser, dokkum
• Anna Maria Theresia Adriaensen (77), Merksplas
• Aaltje Rooke (76), Zwolle, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna van Hulst (41), Velp, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonij Jansen (79), Terborg

• 1907 » Irene Hunt, American author and educator († 2001)
• 1909 » Fred Perry, English-Australian tennis player and academic († 1995)
• 1910 » Ester Boserup, Danish economist and author († 1999)
• 1911 » Big Joe Turner, American blues/R&B singer († 1985)
• 1912 » Perry Como, American singer and television host († 2001)
• 1912 » Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1992)
• 1912 » Walter Sisulu, South African politician († 2003)
• 1913 » Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English publisher and politician († 2000)
• 1914 » Boris Christoff, Bulgarian-Italian opera singer († 1993)
• 1914 » Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer, founded Balmain († 1982)

• 1889 » Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1941 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)

• 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.
• March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
• April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
• May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
• May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
• October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
• November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

The temperature on May 18, 1911 was between 10.3 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.