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• D. Elizabeth Hughes Piercy, Cleveland County, North Carolina († 2003)
• Bertha Rubens, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Augustinus Malaihollo, Booi († 1989)
• Albert Brickwedde ongehuwd, Osnabruck, Westfalen, Duitsland († 1941)
• Darcy Vieira, Itapetininga, São Paulo, Brasil († 1961)
• Anna Margaretha Goverde, Zevenbergen († 2020)
• Doetje de Boer, Kollum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland († 2002)
• Alberdina Kiffen, Gronau, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland († 1989)
• Annigje van Sleen, Steenwijk († 2000)
• Anna Elisabeth Josefa Fipp († 2005)

• Arnold Bejach (66), Schoeneberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany
• aafje SONNEVELD (37), benthuizen(ZH)
• Alberdina Oosterhof (0), Emmer-Erfscheidenveen, Emmen
• Aaltje (Aafje) Sonneveld (37), Benthuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Sonneveld (37), Benthuizen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Artje Anna Maria Elizabet Sierkes (78), Bergum
• Artje Anna Maria Elizabet Sierkes (78), Bergum
• Albert Zuiderweg- (72), Veendam, Nederland
• Berend (Hendriks) Daalman (74), Dwingeloo
• Adriana Maria Lemans (19), Tilburg

• 1913 » Xavier Thaninayagam, Sri Lankan scholar and academic († 1980)
• 1914 » Beatrice Straight, American actress († 2001)
• 1914 » Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2012)
• 1914 » Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet († 1988)
• 1915 » Gary Merrill, American actor († 1990)
• 1916 » Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor († 1990)
• 1917 » Wah Chang, Chinese-American artist and designer († 2003)
• 1919 » Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor
• 1920 » Augustus Rowe, Canadian physician and politician († 2013)
• 1920 » Louis Pauwels, French journalist and author († 1997)

• 1903 » Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian and microbiologist (b. 1850)
• 1903 » Eduard Magnus Jakobson, Estonian missionary and engraver (b. 1847)
• 1913 » Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect and academic, designed Zagreb Central Station (b. 1851)
• 1915 » John Downer, Australian politician, 16th Premier of South Australia (b. 1843)
• 1917 » Jaan Mahlapuu, Estonian military pilot (b. 1894)
• 1921 » Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1873)
• 1922 » Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian engineer, invented the telephone (b. 1847)
• 1923 » Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
• 1934 » Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (b. 1847)
• 1937 » Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1900)

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.
• March 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
• 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.
• June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
• June 11 » King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
• November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
• November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

The temperature on August 2, 1917 was between 12.1 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 9.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.