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• Adriana Clasina (Sjaan) Janse, Rotterdam († 1999)
• Albertus Alberts Kloeze, Diever († 2009)
• Anna Cornelia de Swart, Gilze en Rijen († 1993)
• Adriana Cornelia Lodewijk, Princenhage, Noord Brabant († 1984)
• Berardina Maria Gerards van Geest, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1916)
• Anna Maria Smit, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Antoon de Jong, Rijnsburg († 1915)
• Adriaan Slot, Amsterdam († 1991)
• Andreas Petrus Cornelis (André) Sol, Sloten († 2016)
• Adrianus Petrus Josephus van den Boer, Oosterhout († 1970)

• Adriaan Bevaart (75), Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew Jensen (43), Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States
• Adriana de Roode (58), Leiderdorp
• Austin WELLS (39)
• (11), Larchwood, Lyon County, Iowa, 51241, Verenigde Staten
• Barbara Danhauser (85), Home of Daughter Barbara Kimmet
• Adrianus van der Schoot (72), Boxtel (Liempde) (Noord Brabant)
• Albert Stanley Abraham (22), Egypt
• Antonia van den Haak (63), Rijnsburg
• adrianus de GEUS (69), mijnsheerenland

• 1913 » Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, playwright, and composer († 1980)
• 1914 » Juanita Moore, American actress († 2014)
• 1916 » Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist († 1985)
• 1916 » Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1916 » Minoru Yasui, American soldier, lawyer, and activist († 1986)
• 1917 » Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande, Indian mathematician
• 1917 » Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer, author, and academic († 2019)
• 1917 » William Joel Blass, American soldier, lawyer, and politician († 2012)
• 1918 » Charles Evans, English-Welsh mountaineer, surgeon, and educator († 1995)
• 1918 » Russell Kirk, American theorist and author († 1994)

• 1889 » Luís I of Portugal (b. 1838)
• 1897 » George Pullman, American engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company (b. 1831)
• 1901 » Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish businessman and philanthropist, founded GN Store Nord (b. 1829)
• 1905 » Virgil Earp, American marshal (b. 1843)
• 1916 » Ioannis Frangoudis, Greek general and target shooter (b. 1863)
• 1918 » Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1924 » Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1895)
• 1936 » Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (b. 1881)
• 1937 » Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1943 » Camille Claudel, French sculptor and illustrator (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.
• April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
• 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.
• May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
• May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
• August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
• December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.

The temperature on October 19, 1915 was between 2.2 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.