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• Albertus Josephus Boiten, Alken, België († 1996)
• Anna Geertruida de Leeuw, Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Aaltje Keen, Zweeloo,Drenthe,Niederlande,Wezup († 1957)
• Albertus Leonardus Lockhorn, Hoogezand, Martenshoek († 1973)
• Adriaan Arie Bol, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Elzenga, kampen
• Andries (Dries) van de Molegraaf, Amsterdam († 1956)
• Albert Klos, Kloosterhaar
• Adrianus Theodoris Kouters, Zevenbergen († 1998)
• Adriana Petronella Jarnazette, Rotterdam († 1915)

• Aart Eikelenstam (90), Meerkerk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bernard Carel Lodewijk SANSON (0), Zeist
• Annechien Jonkman (40), Wildervank Veendam Groningen Nederland
• Aaron Bobb (83), Lyons, Rice, Kansas
• "Jan Martinus" Jan Martin Jan Martijn Custers (80), Itteren,, Limburg, Nederland
• Benedito Rocha Camargo (34), Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Catharina Welsman (71), Breda, Nederland
• Adrianus Keepers (1), Steenbergen
• Anna Krahn (71), Alexandrovka, Barnaul, Asiatic Russia
• Calvin J. Lester (83), Wyman, Arkansas, Amerika

• 1909 » Charles Pozzi, French race car driver († 2001)
• 1909 » Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player († 1959)
• 1909 » Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist († 1966)
• 1911 » Kay Walsh, English actress and dancer († 2005)
• 1912 » Gloria Guinness, Mexican journalist († 1980)
• 1915 » Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1916 » Gordon Bashford, English engineer, co-designed the Range Rover († 1991)
• 1916 » Martha Raye, American actress and comedian († 1994)
• 1916 » Tony Harris, South African cricketer and rugby player († 1993)
• 1917 » Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1986)

• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)
• 1931 » Francis Marion Smith, American miner and businessman (b. 1846)
• 1931 » Frank Harris, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1856)
• 1931 » Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch priest and politician (b. 1860)
• 1935 » Childe Hassam, American painter and academic (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Georg von Boeselager, German soldier (b. 1915)

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.
• January 5 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
• March 31 » The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
• June 1 » The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
• August 28 » Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
• November 9 » The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
• December 14 » Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.

The temperature on August 27, 1913 was between 10.9 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.