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• Annigje van der Stel, Westmaas († 1957)
• Albertus Hendrikus BRUGMAN, Bergh (Gld.) († 1988)
• Abrahamm Marinus Westdorp, Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1993)
• Antonius Johannus Hendrikus Schurink, Losser, Overijssel, Nederland († 1920)
• Albert Henricus Marie Johannes van der Lans, 's Gravenhage († 1968)
• Antonia Francisca Hoogland, Amsterdam († 2000)
• Albertje Kuiper, Emmercompascuum († 1969)
• Alphonsus Peeters, Herenthout (B-Antw († 2003)
• Alette van der Wal, Leeuwarden († 1997)
• Anna Wilhelmina van der Lans, Voorhout († 2010)

• Ariaantje Zwijnenburg (76), Tienhoven, Nederland
• Aaltje van Van Velz(s)en (75), Heerde
• Aaltje van Zijverden (71), Haarlemmermeer
• Anna Adelheid Grüter (68), Ter Apelkanaal, Nederland
• Angenietje Hogeveen (45)
• alice joséphine SCLICQ (34), Wasmes (Belgium)
• Arnoldina Hendrika Geurens (0), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Jongen (72), Kerkrade
• Adriana Johanna Kasse (29), Rotterdam
• Anthonie Frederik Beijen (72), Utrecht

• 1914 » Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader († 1985)
• 1915 » Anita Louise, American actress († 1970)
• 1916 » Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor, singer, and director († 1982)
• 1916 » Vic Mizzy, American soldier, pianist, and composer († 2009)
• 1918 » Alma Ziegler, American baseball player and golfer († 2005)
• 1919 » William Morris Meredith, Jr., American poet and academic († 2007)
• 1920 » Clive Dunn, English actor († 2012)
• 1920 » Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh († 1998)
• 1921 » Ágnes Keleti, Hungarian Olympic gymnast
• 1922 » Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist and academic, Nobel laureate († 2011)

• 1908 » Abraham Goldfaden, Russian actor, playwright, and author (b. 1840)
• 1908 » Wilhelm Busch, German poet, illustrator, and painter (b. 1832)
• 1911 » Edvard Rusjan, Italian-Slovene pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1911 » Edwin Arthur Jones, American violinist and composer (b. 1853)
• 1917 » Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist (b. 1853)
• 1918 » Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844)
• 1923 » Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Sri Lankan civil servant and politician (b. 1853)
• 1927 » Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German philosopher and author (b. 1855)
• 1930 » Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author (b. 1863)

• 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.
• April 9 » World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
• April 21 » World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
• June 24 » First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
• July 4 » World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
• September 15 » World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
• October 10 » RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.

The temperature on January 9, 1918 was between -4.8 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.