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• Catharinus Hoving, Rotterdam
• Aart van der GIEZEN, Fijnaart († 2007)
• Benjamin Luther Lawson, Walker, Alabama, United States († 1988)
• Aaltje Liefers, Kampen, Overijssel, NL († 1979)
• Aartje Top († 1997)
• Anna Maria GEBBEKEN († 1997)
• Christiaan Navis, Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Zuid Holland († 1986)
• Bertha van Leer, Amsterdam († 1944)
• Alfred Jacob CORN, New York City, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1995)
• Anna van der Valk, Amsterdam († 2005)

• Alexander Gaïm Lissauer (57), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina van Deelen (46), Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van der Veldt (10), Bloemendaal
• Adrianus de Bijl (0)
• Anna Maria Barbara van den Akker (44), Amersfoort
• Antonia Johanna van den Berg, Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bastiaantje DE MAN (30), 's Gravendeel, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Augustinus Dierckx (79), Moll (B)
• Aleida van den Heuvel (1), Leusden
• Abigail J Brown (75), Genoa, De Kalb, Illinois, Verenigde Staten

• 1911 » Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1914 » George Reeves, American actor and director († 1959)
• 1914 » Nicolas de Staël, Russian-French painter and illustrator († 1955)
• 1915 » Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian geographer and cartographer († 2004)
• 1917 » Francis L. Kellogg, American businessman and diplomat († 2006)
• 1917 » Jane Wyman, American actress († 2007)
• 1917 » Wieland Wagner, German director and producer († 1966)
• 1919 » Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and politician († 2012)
• 1919 » Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flute player († 1992)
• 1920 » Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist and educator († 1995)

• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)
• 1933 » Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896)
• 1943 » George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (b. 1864)

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. Grietje
14. Geertruida
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.
• April 10 » The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
• June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
• June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
• August 5 » World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
• 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.
• September 7 » US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)

The temperature on January 5, 1916 was between 5.9 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west.