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• Anna Adriana ALDERS, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Cornelia TE PASKE, Deventer,Gemeente Deventer,Provincie Overijssel,Nederland
• Albert Vos, Noordsleen, Sleen († 2014)
• Ade (Dee) Van de Rivière, Soerabaja, Indonesie († 1999)
• Albert Jozef Derwael, Brustem, België († 1998)
• Anna Dorothea van Waveren († 1997)
• Adrianus Admiraal, Egmond-Binnen († 1978)
• Alphons Joseph (Funs) Stevens, Schinveld († 2005)
• Adrianus Cornelis Johannes Nefs, Scharesberg († 1916)
• Albert Roede, Groningen

• Albert Leopold Vandooren (0), Brugge
• Antonie Cornelis de Leeuw (0), Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Henricus Van huffel (1), Bornem
• Aegidius Daniël Waalkes (82), Leeuwarden
• Albert S G Hope (52), Coal County, Oklahoma
• Anna Dekker (0), Wognum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amelia Simmelink (67)
• Aaltje Bosscher (53), Hoogezand
• Albert Dekker (41), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aegidius Daniël van Borssum Waalkes (82), Leeuwarden

• 1912 » Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and academic († 2006)
• 1912 » Willie Hall, English international footballer († 1967)
• 1913 » Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author († 2010)
• 1913 » Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India († 1984)
• 1915 » Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor († 1995)
• 1915 » Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist († 1991)
• 1917 » Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress († 2011)
• 1917 » Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records († 1969)
• 1917 » Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter († 2009)
• 1918 » Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician († 2012)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

• 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 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
• February 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
• March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
• April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
• April 25 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
• August 6 » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

The temperature on March 12, 1915 was between 3.7 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.