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• Berend Katuin, Amsterdam, Hancock, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1987)
• Bauke Lijklema, Drachten († 1945)
• Charles Gerard Slottje, Coraopolis Alleghany PA († 2009)
• Berend Kenter, Morige, Wedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1999)
• Antonetta Kappen, Den Dungen († 1916)
• Adriana Helena Kouters, Standdaarbuiten († 1999)
• Albert Bronkema, Leens († 2010)
• Arie Stolk, Rotterdam Z.H († 2000)
• Aloijsius Josephus (Louis) van Luxemborg, Tilburg, Nederland († 1995)
• Barbara van Oudheusden, Westmaas († 2004)

• Aartje Maat (70), Goudriaan
• Albertus Johannes van Rijsoort (54), Rotterdam
• Aagtje van Ammers (53), Beemster
• Adriaantje Termeris, Lisse
• Alida van Staal (14), Ermelo
• Annigje Hendriks Schaap (78), Kuinre, Overijssel, Nederland
• Andries Nicolaas Caris (82), Nederweert, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Holders (57), 's-Gravenhage
• Anthonie Bil (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van Kampen (83), Schiedam

• 1910 » Gyula Kállai, Hungarian communist leader, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary († 1996)
• 1912 » Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, author, and mountaineer († 1987)
• 1913 » Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician († 2007)
• 1915 » John Randolph, American actor († 2004)
• 1916 » Jean Jérôme Hamer, Belgian Cardinal († 1996)
• 1917 » William Standish Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)
• 1920 » Robert Clarke, American actor and producer († 2005)
• 1921 » Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader († 1985)
• 1922 » Joan Caulfield, American model and actress († 1991)
• 1922 » Povel Ramel, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist († 2007)

• 1908 » Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (b. 1867)
• 1927 » J. B. Bury, Irish historian, philologist, and scholar (b. 1861)
• 1927 » Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel and polo player (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Romanian-Hungarian general († 1857)
• 1938 » Ödön von Horváth, Croatian-French author and playwright (b. 1901)
• 1941 » Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (b. 1873)
• 1941 » Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English author (b. 1884)
• 1943 » Leslie Howard, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1943 » Wilfrid Israel, English-German businessman and philanthropist (b. 1899)

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

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

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
• February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
• June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
• September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
• November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
• December 23 » World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in the Sinai Peninsula.

The temperature on June 1, 1916 was between 8.0 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.