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• Adriana Jacoba van Heemst, Oude-Tonge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Alice Bernice Houghton († 1997)
• Aaltje Bos, Oosterhesselen,Drenthe,Niederlande († 2006)
• Aalt Wolf, Wezep († 1991)
• Albertine D'havé, Adegem († 1990)
• Adriana Theodora Meijers, Leiden
• Aaron Addison McRae, DE Kalb Kemp, Mississippi († 1995)
• Adriana Bruurmijn, Vlijmen († 1953)
• Antoon Cornelissen, Jutphaas, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2003)
• Antoon Cornelissen († 2003)

• Anna Cornelia Mesker (50), Utrecht (Stad), Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hendrix, Heemstede, Noord-Holland, NL
• Aaltje van Lohuizen (27), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alexander Hubertus Maria POOLEN (19), St-Pieter
• Adrianus van de Mortel (75), Deurne, Deurne en Liessel
• Aart van Beek (88), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Abraham Bourgon Maat (0), Den Haag
• Adelaide Rebecca Wacker (52), Londen,GB
• Albertus den Ouden (26), Leusden
• Aaltjen van Lohuizen (27), ........

• 1913 » Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author († 2010)
• 1913 » Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India († 1984)
• 1915 » Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor († 1995)
• 1915 » Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist († 1991)
• 1917 » Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress († 2011)
• 1917 » Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records († 1969)
• 1917 » Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter († 2009)
• 1918 » Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic († 1989)
• 1918 » Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician († 2012)
• 1921 » Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman († 2001)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

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 31 » World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
• March 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
• June 4 » The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
• June 23 » In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
• August 18 » A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
• December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

The temperature on March 12, 1917 was between 2.5 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.