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• Albert CRAM, Covington, Kentucky († 1918)
• Brinks, Emmen († 1917)
• Aaltje van der Staal, Rotterdam († 1942)
• Aaltje van der Staal, Rotterdam († 1942)
• Anna Maria Alida Rijpkema, Amsterdam († 2001)
• Albert Arnold Gaspard Plessers-Storm, 3680,Neeroeteren,Limburg,België († 1974)
• Petrus Wilhelmus Smits, Klundert († 2001)
• Alida van der Molen, Midwolde ( Leek ) († 1968)
• Adriaan Baas, Nieuw-en Sint Joosland (Middelburg), Zeeland, Nederland († 1920)
• Alida van der Molen, Midwolde (Leek) († 1968)

• Caroline Wilhelmine (85), Frankfort, Amatole, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Bartje Klaas' Roos (64), Midsland, Terschelling, Friesland, Nederland
• Alides VAN DER KALLEN (74), Leeuwarden(Friesland)
• Brinks (0), Emmen
• Albertus Gerardus Florijn (82), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Betje Katoen (82), Amsterdam Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Johannes Vinck (1), Heeze
• Catharina Maria Rikken (0), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna Celi (71), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Caroline Concordia Richter (79), Neudorf, Chemnitz, Saxony

• 1911 » Ashok Kumar, Indian film actor († 2001)
• 1912 » Cornel Wilde, Slovak-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1989)
• 1913 » Igor Torkar, Slovenian poet and playwright († 2004)
• 1915 » Terry Frost, English painter and academic († 2003)
• 1917 » George Osmond, American talent manager († 2007)
• 1918 » Robert Walker, American actor († 1951)
• 1919 » Jackie Ronne, American explorer († 2009)
• 1920 » Laraine Day, American actress († 2007)
• 1921 » Yves Montand, Italian-French actor and singer († 1991)
• 1922 » Nathaniel Clifton, American athlete († 1990)

• 1904 » Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (b. 1870)
• 1905 » Henry Irving, English actor and manager (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1849)
• 1911 » Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian social worker, author, and educator (b. 1867)
• 1917 » Florence La Badie, American actress (b. 1888)
• 1919 » Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (b. 1865)
• 1930 » T. Alexander Harrison, American painter and educator (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
• 1938 » E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye (b. 1894)

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 31 » World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
• March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
• July 28 » The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
• October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
• November 8 » The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
• December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

The temperature on October 13, 1917 was between 6.6 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 9.3 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.