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• Anna Mattheus, Strijnen († 1980)
• Anna Louisa Cornelia Smeijers, Bladel en Netersel († 1990)
• Antoon Gerard Jan Schreurs, Horst († 1943)
• Anthonie de Graaf, Dordrecht († 1990)
• Annie Mae Hodges***, Alabama († 2007)
• 'n Levenloos geboren dochter van Bosland, Ter Aar († 1915)
• Anna Nijgh, Katwijk († 1916)
• Alida van den Heuvel, 's-Gravenhage († 1917)
• Aalten, Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1915)
• Anthonie De Graaf, Dordrecht († 1990)

• Aleida de Reus (87), Didam, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Pronk (71), Schiedam
• Aleida de Reus (87), Didam, Montferland, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bertolina Ferreira da Rocha (39)
• Adriana Wilhelmina van Baren (69), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• "Helene" Elisabeth Karoline Albertine von der Lancken (60)
• Adriana Wilhelmina van Baren (69), Amsterdam
• Adriaan Verburg (63), Goes
• BERNHARD KOMISCHKE (13)
• BERNHARD FRANZ MARTIN KOMISCHKE (13)

• 1913 » Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens († 1959)
• 1913 » Robert R. Gilruth, American pilot and engineer († 2000)
• 1917 » Billy Conn, American boxer († 1993)
• 1917 » Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1976)
• 1917 » Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1917 » Walter Lord, American historian and author († 2002)
• 1918 » Halfdan Hegtun, Norwegian radio host and politician († 2012)
• 1918 » Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)
• 1919 » Jack McGrath, American race car driver († 1955)
• 1919 » Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan († 2007)

• 1886 » Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)
• 1928 » Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1931 » John Monash, Australian general and engineer (b. 1865)
• 1936 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman politician, 292nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1845)
• 1936 » Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1936 » Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)
• 1936 » William Henry Stark, American businessman (b. 1851)
• 1942 » Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1892)

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.
• May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
• June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
• September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
• September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
• November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

The temperature on October 8, 1915 was between 3.2 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.