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• Agnes Bours, Elsloo,, Limburg, Nederland († 1991)
• Adriaan van Sorge, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Annabelle Virginia Rogers, Mapleton, Bourbon, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 1992)
• Adriana van Rijswijk († 2014)
• Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Scholten, Amsterdam
• Albert Louis de Araujo, New York, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1999)
• Adriana van Hemert, Vianen, Utrecht, NL († 1917)
• Albertje Koerts, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2008)
• Annie Scherpen, Nieuw-Schoonebeek († 2001)
• Antonie Verburg, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1990)

• Antje Teyes Brattinga (77), Westhem
• Antsje Teyes Brattinga (76), Sandfirden, Wymbritseradiel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina van Es (82), Hillegom
• de Waard (0), Middelburg
• Adrianus van der Burg (100), Schiedam
• Anna Pen (21), Oldetrijne, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham de la Rie (72), Leiden
• Bernardus Engelbertus Wilhelmus Jansen (0), Terborg, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Anna Ploum (0), Kerkrade (L
• Arentje Aberina Vermeulen (32), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1915 » Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland († 2013)
• 1915 » Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor, and educator († 2003)
• 1916 » Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter († 1968)
• 1917 » Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 2015)
• 1917 » Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia († 1992)
• 1918 » Billy Johnson, American baseball player († 2006)
• 1918 » Harold Atcherley, English businessman († 2017)
• 1918 » Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager († 2002)
• 1919 » Maurice Hilleman, American microbiologist and vaccinologist († 2005)
• 1919 » Wolfgang Wagner, German director and manager († 2010)

• 1896 » Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 » Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
• 1928 » Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 » Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1936 » Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Max Factor, Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (b. 1877)
• 1940 » J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)

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.
• January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
• January 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
• January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
• April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
• July 27 » World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
• October 12 » World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.

The temperature on August 30, 1917 was between 12.2 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.