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• Arendje de Boed († 2001)
• Bernice NN, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1992)
• Augusta Ehscheid, Wayne, New Jersey VS († 2007)
• Age Bos († 1984)
• Gerrit-Jan Sloesarwij, Lochem († 1996)
• Bernard Thomas Stolz, Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1985)
• Albert Van De Poll, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1980)
• Adrianus van der Linden († 1994)
• Anne B Vogel, South Holland, Illinois,Cook County, Verenigde Staten († 1991)
• Aaltje Benjamins († 2013)

• Antonia Vromans (27), Oisterwijk
• Janssens (0), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Agatha Petronella Kuijt (65), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aloysius Gerardus van Beers (1), Bladel
• Aloisius Gerardus van Beers (1), Bladel en Netersel
• Adrianus De JONG (76), Lange Ruige Weide
• Anna Hubertina Peukens (0)
• Alfred Edwin Todd (Sgt) ?**** (23), Harbonnieres, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France
• Anna van Reichenbach-Goschütz (62), Bad Kissingen, Unterfranken, Beieren
• Allegonda Petronella Hendrika Crooijmans (0), Meerlo

• 1912 » Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1996)
• 1913 » Bob Crosby, American swing singer and bandleader († 1993)
• 1917 » Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1985)
• 1919 » Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist († 1984)
• 1921 » Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)
• 1921 » Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire († 1996)
• 1922 » George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1922 » Jean Darling, American actress and singer († 2015)
• 1922 » Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet and academic († 2007)
• 1923 » Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist and programmer († 2003)

• 1892 » Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
• 1900 » Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)

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.
• March 16 » Finnish Civil War: Battle of Länkipohja is infamous for its bloody aftermath as the Whites executed 70–100 capitulated Reds.
• July 4 » Mehmed V died at the age of 73 and Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
• August 27 » Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
• August 30 » Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
• August 31 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
• November 1 » Western Ukraine separates from Austria-Hungary.

The temperature on August 23, 1918 was between 13.0 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.