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• Adriana Kroes, Dordrecht († 1996)
• Antoinette Kessels († 2004)
• Antoon Wouterus Vosters, Reusel-De Mierden (Reusel) (Noord Brabant) († 1919)
• Adrianus Verhagen, Son en Breugel († 2003)
• Aaltje van de Visch, Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland († 1918)
• Adriana Mourik, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel († 1988)
• Carolina Maria Petronella van de Sande, Tilburg († 2009)
• Andreas Johannes Maria Stappers, 's-Hertogenbosch, Brabant, Nederland († 1980)
• Antonia Wilhelmina Cornelia Jansen, Tilburg († 2013)
• Albert Kruijer, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1989)

• Andreas (Andries) Koone Koene (59), Noordwijkerhout (NH-NL)
• Antonia Elisabeth SCHMAND
• Adrianus Knaap van der (83), Stompwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Beute (0), Steenwijk
• Anna Bovenkamp (72), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus van der Knaap (83), Stompwijk
• Baukje Sietes de Boer (63), Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Mathilde Kreeuseler, Makassar
• Aagje Schenk (0), Enkhuizen
• Baukje de Boer (63), Drachten

• 1914 » Angus MacLean, Canadian farmer and politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island († 2000)
• 1914 » Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1972)
• 1915 » Henrik Sandberg, Danish production manager and producer († 1993)
• 1915 » Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist († 2006)
• 1915 » Paul Samuelson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1916 » Vera Gebuhr, Danish actress († 2014)
• 1918 » Arthur Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter († 2015)
• 1918 » Eddy Arnold, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor († 2008)
• 1918 » Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor († 2009)
• 1920 » Michel Audiard, French director and screenwriter († 1985)

• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)
• 1948 » Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Albert
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Johan

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Aaltje
12. Jacoba
13. Helena
14. Geertruida
15. Margaretha
16. Grietje

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
• February 16 » The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
• May 14 » Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence.
• October 11 » The 7.1 M_w San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico. The quake and resulting tsunami kill up to 116 people.
• November 7 » Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
• November 11 » Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
• December 27 » The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.

The temperature on May 15, 1918 was between 4.5 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.