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• van Wezenbeek, Loon op Zand
• Adriaantje DE BODE, Krimpen aan de Lek († 2004)
• Albertus Henricus Vynck, Oostende (B) († 1915)
• Albert William Victor DOMONEY, Epsom, Surrey († 1997)
• Hofkens, Nijmegen († 1915)
• Aleida Eva van Velzen, Hilversum († 1994)
• Albert Demeyer, Vichte (W-VL) België († 1986)
• Aaltje Blaak, Valthermond, Odoorn († 1978)
• Albert Victor Alexandre Thirion, Borlo, België († 1989)
• Alida Verschuur, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Brixius Maria Josephus Amandus De Beer (53), Melsen
• America Bell Mills (84), Salem, Marion County, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Schuiling, Schoonoord
• Anna Maria van van Tilburg (67), Heer Ivostraatje 47, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Augustin LOURME (26), Ville-en-Woëvre,55160,Meuse,Grand Est,FRANCE
• Berendina Hartgerink (48), Ambt Delden
• Antonie Theodorus van Zon (2), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Groenenstijn (1), Stoutenburg
• Adrana Bosland (73), Vinkeveen en Waverveen (U)
• Carolus - Karolus Ludovicus Debrabandere (73), Ypres, Flandre Occidentale, 8900, Belgique

• 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)

• 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 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
• March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
• May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
• 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.

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.