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• Aaltje Dijkstra, Oude Pekela (Groningen)
• Albert van der Molen, Middelstum, Groningen, Nederland († 2004)
• Afton Mar JOHNSON, Kanab, Kane County, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Anna Sibilla Heijkoop, Zoeterwoude († 2001)
• Anna Maria ten Berge, Apeldoorn,Apeldoorn,Gelderland,Nederland († 2016)
• Anna Maria Strooper, Zijpe-'t Zand, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Albert Louis Vliegen, Montenaken, België
• Alida Wilhelmina Zwaneveld, Amsterdam († 2000)
• Albertha Hakkenes, Lutten
• Anna Maria Elizabeth Est van, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Antonius Adrianus Maria (Toon) Teurlings (0), Loon op Zand
• Adriana Verboom (63), Kattendijke, Zeeland, Nederland
• (Gravin) Maria Arnoldina Van Hogendorp (70), Doorn, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Alvis Wilson McCulloch (62), Civil Dist 24, Wilson Co, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Ariaans (0), Roermond
• Thier (0), Barnflair, Westerwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Jacoba van Opzeeland (5), Haarlem
• Christina E Evans (59)
• Charlotta Verbeek (78), Hilversum
• Casper Anthony van Charante (72), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands

• 1913 » Red Skelton, American actor and comedian († 1997)
• 1914 » Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist († 2000)
• 1914 » Oscar Heisserer, French footballer († 2004)
• 1915 » Carequinha, Brazilian clown and actor († 2006)
• 1915 » Louis Le Bailly, British Royal Navy officer († 2010)
• 1915 » Roxana Cannon Arsht, American judge († 2003)
• 1916 » Charles Kittel, American physicist († 2019)
• 1917 » Henri Salvador, French singer and guitarist († 2008)
• 1917 » Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor († 2019)
• 1918 » Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)

• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)
• 1890 » Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
• 1892 » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
• 1899 » Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1916 » Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)
• 1937 » Julian Bell, English poet and academic (b. 1908)
• 1938 » Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
• 1944 » Thomas Sturge Moore, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1870)

• 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 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
• March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
• April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
• April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
• July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
• July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.

The temperature on July 18, 1915 was between 7.9 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.