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• Alma Jean TEGERDINE, Bassano Alberta Canada († 1985)
• Adriaan Rekker, Marum († 1996)
• ? Blanken, Valthermond, Gemeente Borger-Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 1919)
• Alida Aartje Streefkerk, Muiden († 2004)
• Adriaan Frijters, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1919)
• Annie Vaessen, Vijlen,, Limburg, Nederland († 1991)
• Alphonsus "Fondie" Quinn, Killycolpy, Stewartstown, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland († 2013)
• Bernardus Johannes ten Tije, Enschede († 1920)
• Voets, Rosmalen († 1976)
• Berendina Uil, Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland († 2006)

• Antje Jelkes Ringersma (82), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Aleida Boesveld (74), Stad Doetinchem
• Annigje Rietveld (61), Krimpen aan den IJssel
• Anna Catharina Bemels (66), Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland
• Arie MILLENAAR (86), herwijnen
• Annie O'Donnell, Lansford, Carbon, Pennsylvania
• Anna Aleida Boesveld (74), Doetinchem, Nederland
• Alexander Gordon (61), Dinxperlo
• Catharina van der Kleij (69), Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Cornelia Clotilda Koijen (0), Baarle-Nassau

• 1916 » Alice Childress, American actress and playwright († 1994)
• 1916 » Lock Martin, American actor († 1959)
• 1917 » Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer and manager († 2004)
• 1919 » Doris Miller, American chef and soldier († 1943)
• 1919 » Gilles Beaudoin, Canadian politician, 34th Mayor of Trois-Rivières († 2007)
• 1920 » Christopher Soames, English politician and diplomat, Governor of Southern Rhodesia († 1987)
• 1921 » Art Clokey, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor, created Gumby († 2010)
• 1921 » Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English tennis player and ice hockey player († 2001)
• 1921 » Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish rugby player and journalist
• 1922 » William H. Sullivan, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines († 2013)

• 1896 » Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 9th Council President of Denmark (b. 1817)
• 1898 » Calvin Fairbank, American minister and activist (b. 1816)
• 1914 » Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838)
• 1915 » Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
• 1923 » Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1926 » Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838)
• 1933 » John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)
• 1940 » Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)

• 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 7 » Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
• January 18 » Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
• February 17 » The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
• April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
• April 16 » Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
• July 27 » The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.

The temperature on October 12, 1919 was between -2.9 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.