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• Andreas Labriaire, Vaals,Gemeente Vaals,Limburg,Nederland († 1918)
• Adrianus Boer, Vlaardingen († 1918)
• Basil Walter LEWIS, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia († 1985)
• Arend Jan Witteveen, Silvolde
• Anne Rozendal, Echten gem. Lemsterland († 1993)
• Adrianus Franciscus Jacobus de Haas, Ijsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland
• van Holstein († 1951)
• Antonia Vermazen, Utrecht († 1997)
• Aloys zu LÖWENSTEIN-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Berlin, Deutschland († 1925)
• Anno Elzen, Nieuw-Beerta, Beerta,, Groningen, Nederland († 1919)

• Anna Maria Willems (30), Sint Anthonis
• Catharina HOMBURG (83), Dordrecht
• Andries Hennipman (27), Amsterdam, prov. Noord Holland
• Arij van den Berg (77), Delft
• Arij van den Berg (77), Delft, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Kolff (0), Lynden, Whatcom, WA
• Antje van Noord (36), Oostzaan wijk A nr 97 Zuideinde
• Anna van Lammeren (10), Ter Aar (Langeraar)
• Adriana van de Vorst (79), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Adrianus VAN KESSEL (82), Turnhout,2300,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE

• 1913 » Arnold Brown, English-Canadian missionary, 11th General of The Salvation Army († 2002)
• 1914 » Alan Bullock, English historian and author († 2004)
• 1914 » Larry Noble, English comedian and actor († 1993)
• 1915 » B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa († 1983)
• 1916 » Archie Moore, American boxer († 1998)
• 1916 » Leonard Weisgard, American author and illustrator († 2000)
• 1918 » Bill Vukovich, Serbian-American race car driver († 1955)
• 1919 » Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot († 1942)
• 1920 » George P. Shultz, American economist and politician, 60th United States Secretary of State
• 1921 » Turgut Demirağ, Turkish film producer, director and screenwriter († 1987)

• 1908 » Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)
• 1919 » Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850)
• 1922 » Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter and photographer (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
• 1924 » Samuel Gompers, English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor (b. 1850)
• 1927 » Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1931 » Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
• 1935 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)

• 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.
• June 5 » World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
• July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
• August 18 » A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
• 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.
• October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
• November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The temperature on December 13, 1917 was between 1.3 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.