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• Lambregts Joanna, Hoogstraten, Antwerpen, België († 1974)
• Annetje Koetsier, Apeldoorn, Uddel († 1952)
• Anna Smit († 1981)
• Ludovicus Adrianus Van Broekhoven, Steenbergen († 1993)
• Alice Brink, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 1995)
• Anna Maria van Slatin, Wenen († 2007)
• Albert Roemeling, Eexta, Scheemda, Groningen, Nederland († 1973)
• Antonius Aloijsius Engel, Tilburg († 2001)
• Aaltje Paalman, Diepenveen († 1950)
• Adriana Linnebank, Utrecht († 1956)

• Aaltje Veenstra- (0), Drachten, Nederland
• Catharina Hendrika van Nuland (3), Rosmalen, Nederland
• Alida van Bennekom (65), Houten
• Antoine Jean Alphonse Dumoulin (0), Heers, België
• Charles Henry Todd **** (78), Owensboro, Daviess, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Berendina van Kraanen (76), Renkum
• Adrianus Jong de (64), Sliedrecht, ZH, Nederland
• Bouke Bakker (24), Dordrecht, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Alida van Bennekom (65), Houten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Verkuijlen (43), Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin

• 1910 » Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer († 1981)
• 1911 » Buck Clayton, American trumpet player and academic († 1991)
• 1914 » Peter Whitehead, English race car driver († 1958)
• 1915 » Roland Barthes, French philosopher, theorist, and critic († 1980)
• 1916 » Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic († 2000)
• 1916 » Paul Emery, English race car driver († 1993)
• 1917 » Jo Stafford, American singer († 2008)
• 1919 » France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1920 » Richard Quine, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1989)
• 1922 » Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, author, and journalist († 1951)

• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)
• 1916 » Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855)
• 1933 » F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
• 1933 » John Cady, American golfer (b. 1866)
• 1939 » Norman Bethune, Canadian physician and humanitarian (b. 1890)
• 1946 » Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (b. 1875)
• 1946 » Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian academic and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
• 1950 » Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler (b. 1883)

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.
• January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
• March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
• March 9 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
• April 8 » In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.
• August 28 » World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
• December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

The temperature on November 12, 1916 was between 9.0 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.