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• Antonius Petrus van Iersel, Tilburg († 1979)
• Antonius van Valkengoed, Hoogland († 1916)
• Peters, Asten († 1986)
• Adriana Cecilia Everarda van Holsteijn, Westland(ZH)-'s-Gravenzande († 2008)
• Antoine Victor Strauven, Mielen-Boven-Aalst, België († 1992)
• van de Wege
• Adriaan Petri, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Catharina Van Gemert, Nijmegen († 2000)
• Casper Franciscus Hendrik Schram, Den Haag († 1917)
• Antonius van Valkengoed, Hoogland († 1916)

• Anna Theodora Vaillant (65), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Theodora Vaillant (65), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Arnoldus Petrus Willem van Bavel (0), Tilburg
• Antonius Jacobus Jansen (0), Gilze en Rijen
• Anna Bakker (83), Medemblik, Nederland
• Adrianus de Jong, Vught
• Arnoldus Petrus Wilhelm van Bavel- (0), Tilburg, Nederland
• Arendje Muus (56), Moordrecht
• Adelaïde Cecilia Jeanson (72), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Foks (0), Vrijenban, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1911 » Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1911 » Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, philosopher, and theorist († 1995)
• 1913 » Burt Lancaster, American actor († 1994)
• 1914 » Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager († 1997)
• 1914 » Ray Walston, American actor († 2001)
• 1915 » Sidney Luft, American film producer († 2005)
• 1917 » Ann Rutherford, American actress († 2012)
• 1918 » Alexander Vraciu, American commander and pilot of Romanian descent († 2015)
• 1919 » Warren Stevens, American actor († 2012)
• 1920 » Bill Mazer, Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster († 2013)

• 1886 » James Watney junior, English brewer, cricketer, and politician (b. 1832)
• 1887 » Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1820)
• 1898 » George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
• 1905 » Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
• 1911 » Kyrle Bellew, English actor (b. 1850)
• 1930 » Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, target shooter, and gymnast (b. 1874)
• 1935 » Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
• 1944 » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)

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 10 » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
• January 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
• April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
• May 10 » Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
• July 15 » In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
• December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).

The temperature on November 2, 1916 was between 6.0 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.