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• Alfred Landau, Brasil
• Anna Geertruida Immerentia de Munk, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Cornelius Kuijpers, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1912)
• Annigje Broekman, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abraham Huck, Balta, Balta, Podolien, Russisches Kaiserreich († 1971)
• Anna Geertruida Immerentia de Munck († 2001)
• Feskens, Breda, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1961)
• Albertus Polder, Bolsward
• Albertus Weggemans, De Mars, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Huisman, Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1984)

• Anna Maria Moors, Deurne, Deurne en Liessel
• Agatha Helena de Visser (78), Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus van der Knaap (77), Leidschendam
• Berend OOSTINGA (82), Aduard Groningen Netherlands
• Aart van Dam (70), Baarn
• Barend Herman Dalenoort (0), Enschede {OV}
• Bauke Durks Tuinstra (87), Achtkarspelen, NL-FR
• Arie de Kruijf (63), Barneveld {GE}
• Bernardina, Wilhelmina Voots (1), Winterswijk (gelderland)
• Allegonda Hendriks (76), Beek en Donk, Laarbeek

• 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)
• 1915 » Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist († 2006)

• 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. 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. Grietje
13. Aaltje
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.
• May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
• June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
• July 30 » Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
• December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
• December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
• December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

The temperature on May 15, 1912 was between 9.7 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.