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• Arnold Slier, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1995)
• Adriaan Teiwes, Amsterdam († 1982)
• Arend Profijt, Kloosterhaar († 1918)
• Antonius Cornelis Marie Oostveen, Utrecht († 1952)
• Agnes Patricia Brugman, Tagus ND († 1998)
• Adriana van der Schee, Poortugaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Abraham Cardozo, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Arnold Malcolm Swanson (Cpl), Easton, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• van der Weide, Hollandscheveld († 1917)
• Anna Petronella Jacoba Klaassen, Gilze en Rijen († 1984)

• Bauke Bakker (65), Sneek
• Aartje Bliekendaal (78), Nijkerk
• Aaltje Bremer (16), Oudshoorn
• Bastiaan Polak (76), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Bus (84), Oerterp
• Adriana Wagemans (68), Roosendaal
• Antoon Zuidinga (51), Emsdetten, Duitsland
• Bauke Thomasz Bakker (67), Sneek
• Adriana van Muijden (59), Utrecht
• Bauke Thomasz Bakker (65), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland

• 1909 » Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery († 2007)
• 1911 » Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor († 1967)
• 1912 » Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer († 2010)
• 1913 » René Clément, French director and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1913 » Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot († 1941)
• 1915 » Richard Condon, American author and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1922 » Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany († 2015)
• 1922 » Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference († 2011)
• 1922 » Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist and academic († 2006)
• 1923 » Andy Granatelli, American race car driver and businessman († 2013)

• 1898 » Matilda Joslyn Gage, American author and activist (b. 1826)
• 1900 » Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (b. 1835)
• 1907 » Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
• 1913 » George I of Greece (b. 1845)
• 1918 » Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (b. 1847)
• 1930 » Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter (b. 1863)
• 1936 » Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864)
• 1939 » Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)
• 1941 » Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
• 1947 » William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)

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.
• February 24 » World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
• April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
• May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
• August 6 » World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
• December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
• December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

The temperature on March 18, 1917 was between 2.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.