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• Aaltje Hoeven, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Engeltje Gijsbertje de Jong, Oude Wetering
• Alida Dienaar, Den Helder
• Aaltje Hoeven, Harderwijk († 1987)
• Adriana Van Der Wel, Maassluis
• Alle Broers Porte, Jelsum, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1970)
• Alida de Vries, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Aaltje Stoppels, Delzijl
• Alle Porte, Jelsum († 1970)
• ALOYSIUS PAULUS BEUGELS, CLINGE,ZEELAND,NEDERLAND († 1913)

• Augustinus Johannes Hubertus van den Heuij (67), Oerle
• Alberdina Fokkoba Dina Houttuin (49), Harenermolen (Haren-Gr)
• Anna Catharina Hoogenkamp (22), Oegstgeest (Oegstgeest) (Zuid Holland)
• Anna Maria Cornelia van den Burg (56), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hanegraaf (28), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Franziska Boss, Brunssum (L
• Arie Baart (57), Haarlem
• Arie Baart (56), Haarlem, Nederland
• Adriana LEENAERTS (78), Loenhout, Antwerpen, België
• Alette van Renswoude (30)

• 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 » Henrik Sandberg, Danish production manager and producer († 1993)
• 1915 » Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist († 2006)
• 1915 » Paul Samuelson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)

• 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 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)

• 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.
• March 4 » The United States Department of Labor is formed.
• March 21 » Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
• March 22 » Mystic Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
• June 4 » Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.
• August 16 » Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
• August 28 » Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.

The temperature on May 15, 1913 was between 8.2 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.