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• Adriana Petronella Driessen, Loon op Zand († 1973)
• Anna Lucas, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States of America († 1986)
• Aaltje Jozina Crezee, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Drimmelen, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands
• Aart Molendijk, Rotterdam
• Agnes Charlotte Louise Maria (ANGIE) PRIGGE, Pietermaritzburg, Südafrika
• Agnes Mitchell, Insch-Aberdeenshire
• Aaltje Groenewegen van der Weijden, Overschie († 1929)
• Adrianus Cornelis van Van Seeters
• Alvina Christina Baudendistel, New Hamburg, Scott, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1988)

• Adrianus Mutsaerts (65), Essen, België
• Adrianus Blokland (37), Hardinxveld
• Adriaan Oppers (73), Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafje van der Neut, Leiderdorp
• Arnoldus van Rooij (66), Oisterwijk, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Aldert Dobber (64), Middelie, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• August Olsen Charnholm (51), Bottineau, Bottineau, North Dakota
• Anna Maria Smulders (67), Haarlem
• Adrianus Constantinus Neefs (1), Wuustwezel, België
• Antheunis Dieleman (22), Hoek

• 1899 » Helen Traubel, American operatic soprano († 1972)
• 1902 » Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1902 » George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist and author († 1984)
• 1906 » Alan Fairfax, Australian cricketer († 1955)
• 1907 » Jack Albertson, American actor († 1981)
• 1909 » Archie Carr, American ecologist and zoologist († 1987)
• 1910 » Juan Velasco Alvarado, Peruvian general and politician, 1st President of Peru († 1977)
• 1912 » Albert Chartier, Canadian illustrator († 2004)
• 1912 » Enoch Powell, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Health († 1998)
• 1914 » Eleanor Sokoloff, American pianist and teacher († 2020)

• 1881 » Josiah Mason, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)
• 1885 » Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter and academic (b. 1818)
• 1886 » Alexander Stuart, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1824)
• 1902 » Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and academic (b. 1841)
• 1918 » Bazil Assan, Romanian engineer and explorer (b. 1860)
• 1925 » Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar (b. 1871)
• 1930 » Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (b. 1860)
• 1930 » Ezra Fitch, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1866)

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

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

• 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
• April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
• September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
• September 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
• September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
• December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

The temperature on June 16, 1906 was between 8.8 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.