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• Alida Steneker, Amsterdam († 1992)
• Aaltje Johanna (Aal) Smit, Sauwerd, Winsum, Groningen, Netherlands († 1999)
• Adriana ( Sjaan ) van der Schoot, Vught († 1983)
• Abraham WIJNBERG, Groningen († 1943)
• Aaltje Johanna Smit, Sauwerd, Adorp, Groningen, Nederland († 1999)
• Adriana, Johanna Nuyten, Bergen op Zoom
• Adrianus Nicolasz Driebergen, Rijnsburg
• Abraham(Bob) Wijnberg, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1943)
• Adriana van der SCHOOT, Vught,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1983)
• Aaltje Fokkelina Geertruida Doornbos, Groningen (Grunn), Groningen, Nederland († 2009)

• Abel Dane (0), St Annaland
• Anna Mulder (28), Grootegast
• Abraham Oosterling (0), groede (zeeland)
• Anna Margaretha Neehus (0), Lindloh, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Anthonius van der VELDEN (86), Bergeijk, 3314, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Maria Speijers (0), Nijmegen
• Albertus Jacobus Vonk (66), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Barend Versluis (73), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Burma (54), Ackley, Hardin County, Iowa
• Bernardus Jahannes Stark (1)

• 1910 » Ester Wier, American author († 2000)
• 1910 » Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor († 1995)
• 1912 » Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1982)
• 1912 » Pope John Paul I, Catholic pope from August 1978- September 1978 († 1978)
• 1912 » Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School († 2001)
• 1913 » Faik Türün, Turkish general († 2003)
• 1913 » Marian Marsh, Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist († 2006)
• 1913 » Robert Lowery, American actor († 1971)
• 1914 » Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator († 1996)
• 1915 » Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter († 2005)

• 1887 » Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
• 1889 » Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
• 1893 » Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
• 1910 » Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
• 1918 » Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
• 1928 » Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
• 1937 » J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
• 1948 » Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)

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

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. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
• February 21 » Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
• March 3 » Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
• May 14 » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
• June 19 » Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
• October 9 » The steamship SSVolturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
• December 1 » Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.

The temperature on October 17, 1913 was between 3.2 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.