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• Antonius de Wit, Vinkeveen († 2012)
• Armand Hermine Albert VERMAELEN, Leuven,3000,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE († 1994)
• Ashley Clarence Wemple, Chicago IL († 2003)
• Casper Lambeck, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 1994)
• Alfred Attwell BLACKLER, Southsea, Hampshire († 1995)
• Aime Van de Moortele, Machelen Leie († 2002)
• Berit Olufsdatter Fossland, Tømmerås, Grong († 1995)
• Anne Pals, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1997)
• Antonius Petrus de Kleijnen, Rijkevoort,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1985)
• Adriana Nagtegaal, Leerdam, Utrecht, Nederland († 2002)

• Anna Frederica Everdina van Goltstein (88), Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonie van de Craats (78), Ede
• Anna Frederika Everdine baroness van Goltstein (88), Putten, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Abraham Johannes Bakvis (53), ,, Rotterdam, Nederland
• Angela Adelheid Terfehr (1), Lathen, Emsland
• Anna Maria Vogels (0), Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Roos (70), Terschelling, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertus Hendrikus Jansen (18), Didam, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adelheid Catharina Melinka van Dapperen (73), Den Haag
• Aart Janssen (94), Hatert, Nederland

• 1913 » Ken Carpenter, American discus thrower and coach († 1984)
• 1917 » Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author († 2012)
• 1919 » Sol Kaplan, American pianist and composer († 1990)
• 1920 » Gene Leis, American guitarist, composer, and producer († 1993)
• 1920 » John O'Neil, American baseball player and manager († 2012)
• 1920 » Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal († 2013)
• 1920 » Marian Winters, American actress († 1978)
• 1920 » Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland († 2015)
• 1921 » Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey († 2006)
• 1921 » Leon Henkin, American logician († 2006)

• 1901 » Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
• 1903 » Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820)
• 1906 » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1906 » Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
• 1909 » Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
• 1926 » Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Albert
13. Gerardus
14. Dirk
15. Wilhelmus
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Trijntje

• 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 6.5 million citizens.
• March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
• May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
• May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
• October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
• October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
• December 2 » World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk, and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk begin.

The temperature on April 19, 1917 was between -1.6 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.