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• Agatha de Hartog, rotterdam († 1978)
• Aart Cornelis Vrolijk († 2002)
• Alex Lucius Allgood, Bend, Deschutes, OR († 1939)
• Anthonie Niehot, Leiden
• Bosma († 1998)
• Alma Maud Loyd, Kansas († 1967)
• Adriana Maria Brusselers, Eindhoven, NB, Nederland († 1987)
• Ali Haveman, Klazienaveen, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 2003)
• Anna Maria Hubertina Basten, Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland († 1994)
• Agnes Gertrud Claussen, Altona, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany († 1972)

• Abraham de Ruijsscher (80)
• Alebregt Matthijsse (77), Brouwershaven
• Aalbert KREUK (73), IJsselmonde
• Antje Eringa (61), Poortugaal, Albrandswaard, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Schrijvershof (38), Vianen, Vijfheerenlanden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alberdina Lamberta Goutbeek (28), Horst 2
• Anna Berendina Hasselo (71), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Matzinger (75), Middelburg
• Aleida Berendina Bremer (56)
• Adrianus Hubertus van der GOES (68), Overschie

• 1910 » Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and journalist († 1949)
• 1911 » Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1914 » George Reeves, American actor and director († 1959)
• 1914 » Nicolas de Staël, Russian-French painter and illustrator († 1955)
• 1915 » Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian geographer and cartographer († 2004)
• 1917 » Francis L. Kellogg, American businessman and diplomat († 2006)
• 1917 » Jane Wyman, American actress († 2007)
• 1917 » Wieland Wagner, German director and producer († 1966)
• 1919 » Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and politician († 2012)
• 1919 » Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flute player († 1992)

• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)
• 1933 » Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896)
• 1943 » George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (b. 1864)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Neeltje
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 6.3 million citizens.
• January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
• April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
• April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
• May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
• July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
• October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.

The temperature on January 5, 1915 was between 1.1 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.