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• Amie Martha Thirbe Oltmans, Den-Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Aaltje Tuin, Oostwold, Midwolda († 2002)
• bastiaantje SNIJDERS, nieuw-beijerland († 1995)
• Abram C Edewards († 2000)
• Arcade Louis HEERINCKX, Hoegaarden (B) († 1917)
• Anna Maria Van de Riet, Sevenum († 1997)
• Beert Mouw, Leuvenum (Ermelo) († 2007)
• Anthony Henry Huels, Carlyle, Clinton, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1978)
• Aafje Hibma, Amsterdam († 1979)
• Abraham Brugman, Leiden († 1989)

• Antonie van Liempd (86), Schijndel
• Antoinette Antonia Mechtilda Maria Verwoerd (33), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anthonia Alida BRAKKE (74), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Hendrikus KOK (0), Ubbergen
• Antonetta Maria Moerkens (17), Utrecht
• Adam van der Giessen (66), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Wouterus Renes (45), Doorn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje van Buiten (66), Oldemarkt
• Anna Maria Boissevain (44), Naarden
• Antje van Buiten * (66), Oldemarkt

• 1911 » Christian Fouchet, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of the Interior († 1974)
• 1916 » Shelby Foote, American historian and author († 2005)
• 1917 » Ruth Aaronson Bari, American mathematician († 2005)
• 1919 » Kim Heungsou, Korean painter and educator († 2014)
• 1920 » Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter († 2005)
• 1920 » Gemini Ganesan, Indian actor and director († 2002)
• 1921 » Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter and illustrator († 2019)
• 1922 » Jack Froggatt, English footballer († 1993)
• 1922 » Stanley Cohen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2020)
• 1923 » Hubertus Brandenburg, Swedish bishop († 2009)

• 1902 » Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847)
• 1905 » Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
• 1910 » Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
• 1917 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1840)
• 1922 » Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1847)
• 1923 » Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Gregory VII of Constantinople (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Charles W. Chesnutt, American lawyer, author, and activist (b. 1858)

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.
• March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
• April 8 » In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.
• April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
• June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
• September 15 » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
• November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.

The temperature on November 17, 1916 was between -4.1 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged -1.0 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.