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• Alice Blanche Pastore, Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Adriaantje de Bode, Krimpen aan de Lek (NL) († 2004)
• Albertus Gerard Ruiterkamp, Almen
• Anna Maria Kuijs, Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1990)
• Albertus Henricus Alphonsus Dergent, Turnhout, België († 1982)
• Albertus Benedictus Nuyts, Tessenderlo, Limburg, België († 2009)
• Aaltje Blaak, Valthermond, Odoorn († 2014)
• Anna Maria Jacquellina Ronken, Sittard, Sittard-Geleen († 1916)
• adriaan wagtmans, ruchpen († 1915)
• Aaltje Blaak, Exloërmond, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 1978)

• Agatha Maria Cromberge (1), den haag
• Antonie Theodorus van Zon (2), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Brixius Maria Josephus Amandus De Beer (53), Melsen
• Berendina Hartgerink (48), Delden, Ambt
• Adrana Bosland (73), Vinkeveen en Waverveen (U)
• adriaan jansen (75), Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Carolus Ludovicus De Brabandere (73), Ieper
• Anne Joséphine "Adrienne" Douvreleur de Gardelles (84), Vertaizon, Puy-de-Dôme, France
• Antonie Groenenstijn (1), Stoutenburg
• Catharina Maria van Heijst (49), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1912 » Marta Eggerth, Jewish-Hungarian-American actress and singer († 2013)
• 1914 » George Davis, American art director († 1984)
• 1914 » Mac Raboy, American illustrator († 1967)
• 1915 » Joe Foss, American general and politician, 20th Governor of South Dakota († 2003)
• 1915 » Martin Clemens, Scottish soldier († 2009)
• 1915 » Regina Ghazaryan, Armenian painter († 1999)
• 1916 » A. Thiagarajah, Sri Lankan educator and politician († 1981)
• 1916 » Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, world's first female prime minister († 2000)
• 1916 » Win Maung, 3rd President of Union of Myanmar († 1989)
• 1918 » William Holden, American actor († 1981)

• 1888 » E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (b. 1821)
• 1892 » Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
• 1921 » Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Laurence Ginnell, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1944 » Dimitrios Psarros, Greek lieutenant, founded the National and Social Liberation (b. 1893)
• 1944 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer and coach (b. 1867)

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 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
• February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
• June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
• June 9 » William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMSLusitania.
• July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
• November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

The temperature on April 17, 1915 was between 0.4 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.