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• André Deseck, Hooglede, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1998)
• Adriana Johanna Gebbe, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen, Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertus Johannes Bruil, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Viskaal, Slagharen
• Abraham Jacob van Dommelen, Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1916)
• , Lac-au-Saumon († 1976)
• Albertha Johanna Zwier, Leusden,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1995)
• Adriaensen Maria Theresia Ludovica, Baarle-Hertog, Antwerpen, België († 1974)
• André Deseck, Hooglede,8830,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1998)

• Barendina Jacobs Nagtegaal (77), Leiden
• Abraham SCHREUDER (71), Broek In Waterland, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barendina (Bardina) Nagtegaal (78), Leiden
• Antoinetta Paulina Maria Robert (65), Scheveningen,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Antoinetta Paula Maria ROBERT (65), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aalt de Groot (0), Nijkerk
• Antonius Gregorius Wieland (0), Angerlo
• Aaltje STEENBERGEN (68), Arnhem
• Anna Maria van Bokhoven (1), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Lindeboom, Heerhugowaard

• 1912 » Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director and manager († 2009)
• 1913 » Jean-Michel Atlan, Algerian-French painter († 1960)
• 1913 » Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association († 2007)
• 1915 » Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower and handball player († 2003)
• 1915 » Potter Stewart, American lawyer and judge († 1985)
• 1915 » W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-Barbadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1916 » Airey Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland († 1979)
• 1916 » David Douglas Duncan, American photographer and journalist († 2018)
• 1918 » Florence Rush, American social worker and theorist († 2008)
• 1918 » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)

• 1893 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
• 1921 » Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855)
• 1922 » René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)
• 1923 » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 1931 » Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina (b. 1881)
• 1937 » Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (b. 1876)
• 1939 » Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1903)
• 1943 » Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (b. 1887)

• 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 6.3 million citizens.
• January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
• February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
• May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
• July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
• August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

The temperature on January 23, 1915 was between -1.6 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.