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• Spies, Veenendaal († 1917)
• Antonius van Namen, Zwijndrecht († 1995)
• Adrianus Martinus van de Wiel, Waalwijk († 1918)
• Antonius Cornelis Maria Posthuma, Amsterdam († 1968)
• Arthur Gubbelmans, Diepenbeek, België († 1991)
• August (Guus) Baltus, Spaubeek († 1991)
• Antonetta Cloosterman, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2010)
• Adrianus Johannes Kramer, Heemstede († 1998)
• Anna Hamstra, Marrum, gem. Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Jacoba Daane, Kapelle, Nederland († 2007)

• Alphonsius Maria Adrianus Michielsen (59), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Franken (0), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Douwes DOUWENGA (74), Opsterland (Friesland, The Netherlands)
• Arenda Reina Prummel (1), Veendam (NL)
• Agatha Walraven (84), Almkerk
• Gosse Aukes Veldstra (84), utingeradeel
• Arenda Reina Prummel (1), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonius Adrianus Johannes van Dun (0), Tilburg
• Anna Cornelia Franken, Bergen op Zoom
• Aalbert van den Brink (53), Amsterdam

• 1914 » Bernarr Rainbow, English organist, conductor, and historian († 1998)
• 1914 » Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer († 1952)
• 1915 » Chuck Williams, American author and businessman, founded Williams Sonoma († 2015)
• 1917 » Charles Drake, American actor († 1994)
• 1917 » Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1919 » Jan Flinterman, Dutch race car driver and pilot († 1992)
• 1919 » John W. Duarte, English guitarist and composer († 2004)
• 1921 » Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot and engineer († 2006)
• 1921 » Edmund Crispin, English writer and composer († 1978)
• 1921 » Robert Runcie, English archbishop († 2000)

• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
• 1955 » William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
• 1962 » Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)

• 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 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
• March 8 » The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
• May 27 » Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
• October 15 » World War I: Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage.
• November 5 » October Revolution: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
• November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.

The temperature on October 2, 1917 was between 8.0 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.