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• Baby Boy (Art?) Gaffney († 1918)
• Adele Niehus, Bonn († 1981)
• Adriana Christina van Veen († 1918)
• Alexander van Gelderen, Wijk bij Duurstede († 2005)
• Andreas Augustinus van Regenmortel, Koewacht († 1992)
• Albertus Jongbloed, Schiedam († 1940)
• Antje Marie Kielman, Westerlee († 2012)
• Aaltje Wierenga, Groningen († 1997)
• Albertus Theodorus Truijen, Gruitrode (B) († 1981)
• van den Crommenacker, Erp († 2001)

• Agatha Helena Maria van de Water (56), 's-Gravenhage
• Annie Ruth Phariss (5)
• Jongejan (0), Boskoop
• Aaltje Roos (60), Scheveningen
• Alexander De bruyn (77), Bornem
• Adriana Maria Paalvast (41), Monster, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Paalvast (41), Delft
• Antje van der Veen (51), Finsterwolde gemeente Oldambt Groningen
• Albertus Carolus Bakx (53), Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Antonia Cortvriendt (76), Terneuzen, Nederland

• 1914 » Marguerite Duras, French novelist, screenwriter, and director († 1996)
• 1914 » Richard Coogan, American actor († 2014)
• 1915 » Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor († 2003)
• 1916 » David White, American actor († 1990)
• 1916 » Mickey Owen, American baseball player and coach († 2005)
• 1916 » Nikola Ljubičić, Serbian general and politician, 10th President of Serbia († 2005)
• 1918 » George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, English soldier and politician, Leader of the House of Lords († 2007)
• 1920 » Ignatius IV of Antioch, Greek patriarch († 2012)
• 1920 » Orunamamu, American-Canadian author and educator († 2014)
• 1921 » Elizabeth Wilson, American actress († 2015)

• 1912 » Charles Brantley Aycock, American lawyer and politician, 50th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1859)
• 1912 » Isaac K. Funk, American minister, lexicographer, and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1908)
• 1919 » William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
• 1923 » John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher, created the Venn diagram (b. 1834)
• 1929 » Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (b. 1844)
• 1931 » André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (b. 1853)
• 1932 » Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American author and educator (b. 1842)
• 1941 » Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi, the first wife and chief consort of Sultan Mehmed VI (b. 1866)

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 19 » The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
• March 21 » World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
• June 22 » The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• October 4 » World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
• November 7 » Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
• November 13 » World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

The temperature on April 4, 1918 was between 6.1 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.