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• Adriana Petronella Peeters, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aloys Pieter Jacob Lyphout, Klerken († 1967)
• Amelia Christina Joanna Kruimel, Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida van Buuren, 's-Gravenhage den Haag Zuid-Holland Nederland († 2004)
• Albertus Uijt den Bogaard, Heerde, Nederland
• Alice Boonstra, Cook County, Illinois († 1993)
• Albertus Hendrikus Cornelis Hoegen, Culemborg
• Albert Slebos, Santpoort († 1991)
• Albert Smand, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Amanda Julia Holemans, Averbode, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium († 1912)

• Arend Boelen (77), Beilen
• Annigje Klaassen (60), Dwingeloo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arnold Johan Luitingh (61), Haarlem
• Adrianus Henskens (0), Drunen
• Adriaan Polak (0), Lage Zwaluwe, Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfred Hawver (72), Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Aalbert Koster (81), Pernis
• Adriana van Oosterhout (82), ,, den Bommel, Nederland
• Alice Vanderpool (52), Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria (Mary) Wagner (86), Mount Oliver, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1910 » Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist and academic († 1993)
• 1911 » Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1987)
• 1911 » José María Arguedas, Peruvian anthropologist, author, and poet († 1969)
• 1913 » Carroll Cloar, American artist († 1993)
• 1913 » Giannis Papaioannou, Greek composer († 1972)
• 1914 » Arno Schmidt, German author and translator († 1979)
• 1914 » Vitomil Zupan, Slovene author, poet, and playwright († 1987)
• 1915 » Santiago Carrillo, Spanish soldier and politician († 2012)
• 1915 » Syl Apps, Canadian pole vaulter, ice hockey player, and politician († 1998)
• 1915 » Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player († 1984)

• 1873 » Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1803)
• 1878 » Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1788)
• 1886 » Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
• 1892 » Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
• 1923 » Wallace Reid, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)
• 1936 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
• 1936 » Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian (b. 1867)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
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 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
• May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
• May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
• October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
• November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
• December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

The temperature on January 18, 1912 was between -6.0 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -2.9 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.