About the day » Friday July 13, 1917Calender converter

• Albert Zuiderwijk, Den Haag († 2003)
• Adriana Maria Korswagen, Leiden
• Alberdina ten Veen, Winterswijk
• Armand Van Beneden, Leeds (Engeland) († 1980)
• Knol, Rotterdam († 1917)
• Aletha Dorothy Blackman, Middletown Ny († 1991)
• Age Feenstra, St.Nicolaasga († 2008)
• Antoinette van Luxemburg, Bergen, NH, Nederland († 2016)
• Steur, Volendam († 1917)
• Anna Maria Hendrika Cormaux, Tegelen († 1999)

• Knol (0), Rotterdam
• Adriana de Haan (24), Poortugaal
• Adrianus Lambertus Josephus Lambrechts (0), Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Egbert Wiebes de Jong (67), Zutphen Gelderland
• Aaltje van Beek (54), Woudenberg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Roelofs Drost (72), ,, Franeker, Franeker, Friesland, Netherlands
• * Jan Pieter Klijn (48), Leerdam
• Anna Maria Hubertina Prickaerts (76), Limmel (Meerssen)
• Anthonie Koomans van den Dries (79), Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Anna Maria Hubertina Johanne Prickaerts (77), Limmel

• 1913 » Dave Garroway, American journalist and television personality († 1982)
• 1913 » Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman († 2012)
• 1915 » Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese author and educator († 1989)
• 1918 » Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1918 » Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1918 » Ronald Bladen, American painter and sculptor († 1988)
• 1919 » Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China († 2020)
• 1919 » William F. Quinn, American lawyer († 2006)
• 1921 » Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer and conductor († 1999)
• 1922 » Leslie Brooks, American actress († 2011)

• 1893 » Young Man Afraid of His Horses, American tribal chief (b. 1836)
• 1896 » August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1907 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter and jurist (b. 1866)
• 1911 » Allan McLean, Scottish-Australian politician, 19th Premier of Victoria (b. 1840)
• 1921 » Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1922 » Martin Dies Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1870)
• 1927 » Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (b. 1870)
• 1934 » Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
• 1941 » Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)

• 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.
• May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
• May 21 » The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
• December 6 » World War I: USSJacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SMU-53.
• December 7 » World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
• December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

The temperature on July 13, 1917 was between 9.4 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.