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• Agnes de Vlaeminck, Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1918)
• Anna Cornelia van Steen, Standdaarbuiten († 1985)
• Adriana Stoffels, Utrecht († 1998)
• Antje Blom, Monnickendam († 1959)
• Adrianus Antonius Dekkers, Roosendaal en Nispen, NL († 1919)
• Albert Joseph (Jozef) Engelbosch, Sint-Truiden, België († 1999)
• Annette Lam, Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands († 1943)
• Albertus Jacobus Karskens, Zaandijk († 1985)
• Adrianus Joannus Bogaers, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1969)
• Anna Martina de Groot, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)

• Adriaan Geene (61), Wolphaartsdijk
• Anna Kielman (85), Slochteren, Groningen, The Netherlands
• Alida Cornelia Martina Bartholomeusen Arents (71), Loosduinen, Naaldwijk
• Anna Catharina Paulissen (32), Kerkrade (L
• Annigje Banen (0), Het Schut, Hoogeveen
• Alida Cornelia Martina Arents (71), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Berg (78), Zandvoort
• Anne Rens (1), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Kristiaan Kielman (83), Kolham
• Adrianus van den Berg (78), Zandvoort

• 1914 » Yuri Andropov, Russian politician († 1984)
• 1915 » Nini Theilade, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer, and educator († 2018)
• 1915 » Thomas Huckle Weller, American biologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
• 1916 » Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2001)
• 1916 » Horacio Salgán, Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor († 2016)
• 1916 » Olga Erteszek, Polish-American fashion designer († 1989)
• 1917 » John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)
• 1917 » Lash LaRue, American actor and producer († 1996)
• 1917 » Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer-songwriter († 2005)
• 1918 » François Tombalbaye, Chadian politician, 1st President of Chad († 1975)

• 1888 » Frederick III, German Emperor (b. 1831)
• 1889 » Mihai Eminescu, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1850)
• 1890 » Unryū Kyūkichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 10th Yokozuna (b. 1822)
• 1917 » Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and academic (b. 1867)
• 1934 » Alfred Bruneau, French cellist and composer (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author (b. 1875)
• 1941 » Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and physician (b. 1873)
• 1945 » Count Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein, Austrian diplomat
• 1961 » Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)

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.
• March 8 » International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
• March 31 » According to the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the islands become American possessions.
• April 2 » World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
• April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
• July 12 » The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
• December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.

The temperature on June 15, 1917 was between 11.9 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.