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• Alida Randsdorp, Lisse († 2012)
• Betje Van Dam, Groningen, The Netherlands († 1943)
• Anna Catharina de Mooij, Amsterdam († 2000)
• Anna Lap, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Asman, Amsterdam († 2000)
• Betty Rosen, Canada († 2004)
• Antonius Johannes Salman, Noordwijk, ZH, Nederland († 1919)
• Balthasar van Balen Blanken, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Bernadette Marie Clara Tilman, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2012)
• Betje van Dam, Groningen († 1943)

• Anna Maria van den BROECK (82), Heist-Goor, Antwerpen, België
• Aleida Lucretia HISSINK (66), Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonetta van Dompseler (42), Hoogland zie Utrecht-Amersfoort-Hoogland
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Luneman (62), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Appelonia Maria Mooten (1), Kessel,, Limburg, Nederland
• Schunck (0), Doesburg Gld. Nederland
• Blokpoel (0), 's Gravenhage
• Adriaan Verboven (68), Woensdrecht (Woensdrecht) (Noord-Brabant)
• Albert Hendrik van der Sloot (0), Rotterdam
• Arnoldus Johannes Dries (9), Rotterdam

• 1915 » Eila Campbell, English geographer and cartographer († 1994)
• 1916 » Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor († 1964)
• 1916 » Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1916 » Miguel Arraes, Brazilian lawyer and politician, Governor of Pernambuco († 2005)
• 1917 » Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Indian-Pakistani linguist and lexicographer († 2005)
• 1918 » Chihiro Iwasaki, Japanese painter and illustrator († 1974)
• 1918 » Jeff Chandler, American actor († 1961)
• 1919 » Max Yasgur, American dairy farmer and host of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair († 1973)
• 1920 » Gamal al-Banna, Egyptian author and scholar († 2013)
• 1920 » Kurt Schaffenberger, German-American sergeant and illustrator († 2002)

• 1878 » Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)
• 1943 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
• 1944 » Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• 1947 » Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
• 1958 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1965 » M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1903)

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.
• April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
• October 4 » World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
• October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
• November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
• November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.

The temperature on December 15, 1917 was between 1.1 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.