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• Adriaan de Bruin, Putten
• Albert Oosterhof, Veendijk
• Adrianus Klaver, Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Aart Jan den Outer, Rotterdam († 1945)
• Alberdina Ubels, Roden († 1939)
• Adriana Petronella Maria HOFSTEEDE, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Janna Kanaar, Rilland-Bath († 2000)
• Adriana Wilhelmina de Graaf, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Adriaantje Doolaard Bax, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Adrianus Johannes Leijten, Raamsdonk (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1994)

• Anna Drent (86), Windeweer, gem. Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus leonardus Antonius Hector (0)
• Anna DRENTH (86), Kiel-Windeweer (Hoogezand), Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria de Kock (68), Halsteren
• Adriaan Dubbelman (75), Lage Zwaluwe
• Elisabeth Helsloot (84), Amsterdam
• Antje Hendriks Veltkamp (69), Westergeest, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Veltkamp (69)
• Adriana Johanna van Kerkhoff (Kerkhoff) (100), Huissen, Nederland
• ANDREAS HUBERTUS HACKING (77), Vaals

• 1910 » Bob Van Osdel, American high jumper and soldier († 1987)
• 1910 » Harry Carney, American saxophonist and clarinet player († 1974)
• 1911 » Augusta Braxton Baker, African American librarian († 1998)
• 1913 » Memos Makris, Greek sculptor († 1993)
• 1915 » O. W. Fischer, Austrian-Swiss actor and director († 2004)
• 1916 » Sheila May Edmonds, British mathematician († 2002)
• 1917 » Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1917 » Sydney Newman, Canadian screenwriter and producer, co-created Doctor Who († 1997)
• 1919 » Joseph Murray, American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)
• 1920 » Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor († 1997)

• 1890 » David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)
• 1914 » Charles Wells, English founder of Charles Wells Ltd (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1876)
• 1917 » Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (b. 1868)
• 1920 » Walter Simon, German banker and philanthropist (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Charles I, emperor of Austria (b. 1887)
• 1922 » Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist and author (b. 1884)
• 1924 » Jacob Bolotin, American physician (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Lloyd Hildebrand, English cyclist (b. 1870)
• 1924 » Stan Rowley, Australian sprinter (b. 1876)

• 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 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
• May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
• May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
• June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
• July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
• August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.

The temperature on April 1, 1915 was between -4.0 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.