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• adriana claassens, roosendaal († 1918)
• Albert den Herder, Harderwijk († 1978)
• Andreas van de Wiel, Drunen († 1919)
• Aaltje Johanna Panjer, Coevorden,Gemeente Coevorden,Drenthe,Nederland († 1982)
• Adrianus Clemens, Gilze en Rijen († 1989)
• Aletta van den Berg, Haarlemmermeer († 2011)
• "Wolf Dieter" Gustav Friedrich Uriel Max Eberhard von Gemmingen, München, Bayern, Allemagne († 2003)
• Adrianus Antonius (Janus ) Clemens, Gilze en Rijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1989)
• Albert Brulmans, Hoeselt, België († 2005)
• Anna Mary Prichard († 1994)

• Adriaan Huibregtse (0), Westkapelle
• Agatha Anna Blankert (43), Wijdewormer
• Albert Riské (30), Temse, België
• Anna van Dijk (31), Utrecht
• Anna Mol (60), Rotterdam
• Alida Elisabeth Verhoek (0), Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Pietersz Eecen (71), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Sietsema (11), 't Zand, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje de Vrind (71), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna deBraal (76), Sheboygan, Wisconsin

• 1917 » Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author († 2012)
• 1919 » Sol Kaplan, American pianist and composer († 1990)
• 1920 » Gene Leis, American guitarist, composer, and producer († 1993)
• 1920 » John O'Neil, American baseball player and manager († 2012)
• 1920 » Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal († 2013)
• 1920 » Marian Winters, American actress († 1978)
• 1920 » Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland († 2015)
• 1921 » Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey († 2006)
• 1921 » Leon Henkin, American logician († 2006)
• 1921 » Roberto Tucci, Italian Jesuit leader, cardinal, and theologian († 2015)

• 1901 » Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
• 1903 » Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820)
• 1906 » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1906 » Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
• 1909 » Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
• 1926 » Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)

• 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 1 » Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
• February 24 » Estonian Declaration of Independence.
• April 1 » The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
• June 26 » World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
• July 17 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
• November 14 » Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.

The temperature on April 19, 1918 was between -1.7 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.