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• Aart Vos, Putten
• Saarloos, zevenbergen (noord brabant)
• Adrianus Opzeeland, Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude († 1969)
• Antoon Lolke Visser, Amsterdam
• Hensema, Tange, Groningen, Nederland († 1914)
• Aaltje Klaasdr Wagenaar, Broek op Langedijk, Dijk en Waard, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Theodorus de Ruijter, Wijk a/z aan Duin († 1991)
• van Pinxteren, Berlicum
• Aaltje Wagenaar, Broek op Langedijk
• ?? van der Sar, Amsterdam

• Albertus Smit (83), almelo
• Arie Verhoef (0), Maarsseveen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Bastiaantje Bastiana van Pelt (74), Helder
• Anna Maria Pick (81), Kortessem
• Aaltjen Bergerink (62), Twekkelo
• "Michel" Ange Alexandre Fricero (55), Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
• Adriana Elisabeth de Waal (27), Vlissingen
• Adrianus Franciscus Broes (82), Minderhout, Provincie Antwerpen
• Adriana Wilhelmina Geland (75), Schiedam
• Agnes Christina Wilhelmina Hutjens (1), Arnhem

• 1910 » Miguel Najdorf, Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician († 1997)
• 1910 » Sulo Bärlund, Finnish shot putter († 1986)
• 1912 » Kim Il-sung, North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea († 1994)
• 1912 » William Congdon, American-Italian painter and sculptor († 1998)
• 1915 » Elizabeth Catlett, African-American sculptor and illustrator († 2012)
• 1916 » Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman († 1982)
• 1916 » Helene Hanff, American author and screenwriter († 1997)
• 1917 » Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and bomber pilot († 1944)
• 1917 » Hans Conried, American actor († 1982)
• 1917 » James Kee, American lawyer and politician († 1989)

• 1888 » Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (b. 1822)
• 1889 » Father Damien, Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)
• 1898 » Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, New Zealand commander and politician
• 1912 » Victims of the Titanic disaster:
• 1917 » János Murkovics, Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)
• 1927 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1938 » César Vallejo, Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1942 » Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1943 » Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1944 » Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Russian general (b. 1901)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• 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 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 6.2 million citizens.
• May 15 » During a poker game at the Gaiety Theatre in Galesburg, Illinois, comedian Art Fisher nicknames Chicko, Harpo, Groucho, and Gummo Marx.
• May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
• June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
• July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
• August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
• August 24 » World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.

The temperature on April 15, 1914 was between 3.5 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.