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• Antje van Leyen, Zwaagwesteinde, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1998)
• Adriana Johanna van Zijl, Vinkeveen
• Alexander Salomon Knorringa, Uithuizen († 1920)
• Alberta Kulp, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania († 1978)
• Aafje van der Gragt, De Rijp († 1915)
• Aart Foppen, Harderwijk († 1915)
• Anna Maria Magdalena Broeders, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1915)
• Antoon van Eijsden, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Betje de Boer, Hollum (gem. Ameland) († 1991)
• Betsy Van Coeverden, Coevorden, Drenthe, The Netherlands († 1942)

• Antje Schipper (83), Avenhorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Apolonia Castro (33), Aruba
• ARENDJE ZEEMAN (81), MONSTER
• Anna Gertrudis Snellen (70), Deurne en Liessel
• Adrianus Gerrit Kos (1), Bussum
• Andries Seton (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriaan Frederik Henken (90)
• Anna Geertrudis Snellen (70), Deurne
• Anna Gertrudis SNELLEN (70), Deurne, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Gertruda Snellen (70), Deurne

• 1910 » Sonny Werblin, American businessman and philanthropist († 1991)
• 1912 » Bayard Rustin, American activist († 1987)
• 1914 » Sammy Baugh, American football player and coach († 2008)
• 1915 » Bill Roycroft, Australian equestrian rider († 2011)
• 1915 » Ray Ellington, English drummer and bandleader († 1985)
• 1915 » Robert S. Arbib Jr., American ornithologist, writer and conservationist († 1987)
• 1919 » Nat King Cole, American singer, pianist, and television host († 1965)
• 1920 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 1st President of Bangladesh († 1975)
• 1921 » Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician, 12th Israeli Minister of Communications († 2009)
• 1922 » Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher († 2014)

• 1875 » Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (b. 1832)
• 1917 » Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
• 1926 » Aleksei Brusilov, Georgian-Russian general (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

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 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
• January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
• 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.
• September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
• September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
• December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.

The temperature on March 17, 1915 was between 1.9 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.