About the day » Friday January 21, 1916Calender converter

• Buizerd van Rijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1920)
• Adéle Helouise Mac Donald, Paramaribo, Suriname († 2001)
• Buizerd van Rijn, Katwijk aan Zee († 1920)
• Adrianus Bijleveld, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Adolph Halver Ussing, Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho, United States of America († 1996)
• Adeline Erdt, Michigan (State) († 1977)
• Carolina Hendrika in 't Hout, Rotterdam († 1919)
• Adriana den Besten, Leerdam († 1977)
• Albert Dirk van Ark, Heerde († 1984)
• Adriana de Vet, Waalwijk († 1916)

• Albert Bruyninckx (0)
• Bernardus Josephus Rutten (65), Veerle, België
• Alida Celina Segaert (15), Brugge
• Barshia Lee Ward (16)
• Aleida Geertruida ten Cate Hoedemaker (61), Delft {ZH}
• Catharina Steinel (64), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Carolus Schroven (75), Veerle, België
• Berendina Antonia Beömer (80), Voorst
• Catharina Ameling (97), Den Helder
• (2) Pieter Deken (92), Blokker, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland

• 1912 » Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1915 » André Lichnerowicz, French mathematician († 1998)
• 1915 » Orazio Mariani, Italian sprinter († 1981)
• 1916 » Pietro Rava, Italian footballer († 2006)
• 1916 » Zypora Spaisman, Polish midwife; American and Yiddish-language actress; producer of the Yiddish stage († 2002)
• 1917 » Erling Persson, H&M founder († 2002)
• 1918 » Antonio Janigro, Italian cellist and conductor († 1989)
• 1918 » Jimmy Hagan, English footballer († 1998)
• 1918 » Richard Winters, American soldier († 2011)
• 1919 » Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot († 2016)

• 1901 » Elisha Gray, American engineer, co-founded Western Electric (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1857)
• 1918 » Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (b. 1857)
• 1919 » Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 277th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Gojong of Korea (b. 1852)
• 1924 » Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1926 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1928 » George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer (b. 1858)
• 1931 » Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1932 » Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic (b. 1880)

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 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
• March 9 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
• March 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
• August 16 » The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
• September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
• December 30 » The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

The temperature on January 21, 1916 was between 4.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.