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• Anna Geertruida Antonia Horsting, Zutphen († 2004)
• Adrianus Vervoort, Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Abbing, Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alida Berendina Linsen, 's-Gravenhage
• Albertje Nijland, Meppel, Nederland († 1917)
• Adriaan Lous, Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
• Aaldert Luchies, Oosterhesselen († 1940)
• Andreas Lodewijk Karel Eugenius Decraene, Brugge (WVL) († 1917)
• Alma Roy Woodward Thwaites, Kennedy Bay, Waikato, New Zealand († 1969)
• Aagje Peet, Valkenburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1924)

• Alfonsus Borloo (38), Pamel (Roosdaal) 1760, België
• Adam Jacobus van Grinsven (57), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• WAUTERS (32)
• Schaap, Katwijk
• Arie Uijtterlinde (0), Puttershoek,Zuid Holland,Nederland
• Arthur Joseph MERCIER (27), Saint-Gérard,, Namur, Belgique
• Andreas Dominicus Govaart (68), Schiedam
• Anna Adriana Wammes (0), Vreeswijk
• Abigael Jacoba Leenheer (60)
• Arie Uijtterlinde (0), Puttershoek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland

• 1908 » Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor and illustrator († 2008)
• 1909 » Syd Buller, English cricketer and umpire († 1970)
• 1910 » Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager († 1979)
• 1910 » Lonny Frey, American baseball player and soldier († 2009)
• 1911 » Betty Robinson, American sprinter († 1999)
• 1912 » Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1996)
• 1912 » Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and race car driver († 2008)
• 1913 » Bob Crosby, American swing singer and bandleader († 1993)
• 1917 » Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1985)
• 1919 » Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist († 1984)

• 1892 » Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
• 1900 » Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)

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.
• March 1 » The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
• August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
• October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
• November 1 » World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMSGood Hope and HMSMonmouth.
• November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
• November 28 » World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.

The temperature on August 23, 1914 was between 8.7 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.