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• Adrianus Christianus Josephus Marie Oomen, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1989)
• Augustinus Abraham Verstraten, Schoondijke († 1983)
• Carl Friedrich Helms, Amsterdam († 1994)
• Abraham van Hulst († 1977)
• Berend Kamp, almelo
• Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Truggelaar, Gorinchem († 1973)
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Horenberg, Raalte († 2006)
• Betske WESTRA, Kollum Friesland Netherlands († 1920)
• Adriana SILVIS, Haarlem († 1970)
• Clementine Irene von Pajzs, Botschar (SRB) († 1996)

• Visser (0), Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Hamhuis (38), Appingedam, Gr. Nederland
• Aaltje Wilhelm (30), Venlo
• Albertus Johannes de Wit (18), Utrecht
• * Neeltje de Quant (58), Gouda
• Adriana Clara de Vaan (1), Nieuwkuijk
• Albert Colle (65), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria (Veringa) Feringa (58), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anne Theunis Algra (72), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anne Theunis Algra (72), Suawoude

• 1915 » Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor († 1995)
• 1917 » Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress († 2011)
• 1917 » Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records († 1969)
• 1917 » Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter († 2009)
• 1918 » Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic († 1989)
• 1918 » Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician († 2012)
• 1921 » Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman († 2001)
• 1921 » Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer († 1986)
• 1922 » Jack Kerouac, American author and poet († 1969)
• 1922 » Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader († 1999)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

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

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

• 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 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 6.7 million citizens.
• January 15 » Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
• January 18 » Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
• June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
• July 13 » The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
• July 21 » The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
• August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.

The temperature on March 12, 1919 was between 7.1 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.