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• Caroline Diane Baker, ,,, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1984)
• Christina Bernardina Maria Braam, Groessen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2007)
• Albert Joseph Bogaert, Caestre, Friesland, Nederland († 1994)
• B. Frank Fowler, Columbus County, North Carolina († 1975)
• Bekker, Ressen († 1916)
• Antje Aizes Plantinga, Lippenhuizen († 2000)
• Barbara Rovers, Hillegom († 1915)
• Anny Kalma, Oldenzaal († 2001)
• Abigael Querido, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Carolus van den Boom, Kilder (Gld) Nederland († 1985)

• Aafje Cornelisd Appel (68), Hoorn
• Anna Margaretha Knikker (63), Alkmaar
• Anna Maria Catharina Paradis (69), Beek-Bree
• Annechien Groenier (52), Wildervank
• Aafje Appel (68), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Wagtmans (0), Rucphen
• Aafje Appel (68), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafie Appel (68), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Mewissen (69), Bilzen
• Albert Marcel LEFEBVRE (4), Paris 10

• 1911 » Ishirō Honda, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1912 » Pannalal Patel, Indian author († 1989)
• 1913 » John Spencer Hardy, American general († 2012)
• 1913 » Simon Ramo, American physicist and engineer († 2016)
• 1914 » Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat. British Ambassador to South Africa († 1996)
• 1916 » Huw Wheldon, Welsh-English broadcaster († 1986)
• 1916 » W. B. Young, Scottish rugby player and physician († 2013)
• 1917 » David Tomlinson, English actor († 2000)
• 1917 » Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer († 2013)
• 1917 » Lenox Hewitt, Australian public servant († 2020)

• 1896 » H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1861)
• 1902 » Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (b. 1818)
• 1917 » Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)
• 1922 » Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)
• 1925 » William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
• 1940 » George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 » James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)

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.
• March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
• April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
• May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
• 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.
• September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

The temperature on May 7, 1915 was between 9.4 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.