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• Cornelia Maria Mos, Scheveningen († 2009)
• Arendje van Duijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Buitenpost, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1917)
• Cornelia van Rossum, Rotterdam († 1990)
• Anna Charlotte van Laer, Soerabaja, Java, Indonesia († 2003)
• Anne Charlotte van Laer, Surabaya († 2003)
• Adrianus Antonius Lenaerts, Tilburg († 1988)
• Bessel Van Loenen, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1982)
• Aukje (Lammerts) Laanstra, Surhuzum, Friesland, Nederland († 1951)
• Bastiaantje Looij, Herkingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)

• Age Walta (80), Workum
• Cornelia Lieverse (54), Haarlemmermeer
• Antonetta Tilburg van (81), Oud en nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia van Hal (83), Zundert
• Anna Cornelia Brands (76), Bergen op Zoom
• Antonet van der Burgt (67), Boekel
• Alexander Paul Richard Westerkamp (0), Batavia
• Buitenpost (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries van de Cozijne (72), Oudleusen
• Abraham Prins (36), Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

• 1913 » Mickey Cohen, American mob boss († 1976)
• 1913 » Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)
• 1913 » Victor Kiernan, English historian and academic († 2009)
• 1914 » Rudolf Leiding, German businessman († 2003)
• 1917 » Henry Ford II, American businessman († 1987)
• 1918 » Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer († 2014)
• 1918 » Paul Harvey, American radio host († 2009)
• 1919 » Howard Morris, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 2005)
• 1920 » Clemar Bucci, Argentinian race car driver († 2011)
• 1920 » Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic († 2000)

• 1864 » John Hunt Morgan, American general (b. 1825)
• 1907 » Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1843)
• 1909 » Clyde Fitch, American playwright and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1911 » John Francon Williams, Welsh-born writer, journalist, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Péguy, French poet and philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1940 » George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Erich Fellgiebel, German general (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1974 » Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)

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. Antonius

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 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
• April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
• May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
• October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
• November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
• December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

The temperature on September 4, 1917 was between 5.8 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.