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• Aaltje Zuidema, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2008)
• Alfred Adolphe Maxime Guerville, La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil, Nauw van Calais, Noord-Nauw van Calais, Frankrijk († 1991)
• Barend Albertus ter Waarbeek, Hengelo († 2022)
• Bertus de Koning, Dordrecht († 2009)
• Anna Siewert, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)
• Barend Gerrits van Benthem, Ambt Vollenhove († 2010)
• Abraham van Wijland († 1921)
• Antoon Lenders, Meijel,, Limburg, Nederland († 1920)
• Arendje Kreuk, Rotterdam († 1951)
• Barbara Johanna van de Kerkhof, Oirschot (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 2007)

• Akke Sipkes Heida (75), no.9a, Nes, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertus Hermen Westenbroek (19), Zwolle
• Dirk Aukes Algera (46), Groningen
• Alida Volkers (30), Den Haag(ZH)
• Cornelis Adrianus Schouten (1), Rotterdam
• Aaltje uit de Bulten (79), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Dieuwke Muller (63)
• Adolphine Rosalie Josephe Baudry (54), Roubaix, 59100, Nord, FRANCE
• DINA ABEL (81), KETHEL EN SPALAND
• Berdina Elisabeth van Essen (35), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1916 » José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager († 1978)
• 1916 » Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and songwriter († 1970)
• 1917 » Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader († 1995)
• 1918 » Eddie Jefferson, American singer-songwriter († 1979)
• 1918 » James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author († 2014)
• 1918 » Larry Haines, American actor († 2008)
• 1918 » Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist († 1999)
• 1920 » Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author († 2012)
• 1920 » Norman Dewis, English test driver and engineer († 2019)
• 1920 » P. D. James, English author († 2014)

• 1913 » William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1922 » Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1851)
• 1924 » Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist (b. 1857)
• 1925 » William Bruce, Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
• 1929 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1873)

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.
• April 2 » World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
• October 4 » World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
• November 5 » October Revolution: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
• 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.
• November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
• December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

The temperature on August 3, 1917 was between 12.3 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 14.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.