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• Albert BULENS, Grimbergen,Brabant Wallon,BELGIUM († 2003)
• Aaron van Beetz, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1942)
• Arie Stolk, Tinte (Rockanje) († 1990)
• Arie Izaksz Stolk, Rockanje († 1990)
• Anna Maria van der Ruit, Capelle aan den IJssel, Zuid Holland, Netherlands († 1972)
• Albert Raven, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1959)
• Anna Agnes Johanna Sanders, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1989)
• Antje Henderika Klement, Klazienaveen, Emmen († 2013)
• * Anna Agnes Johanna Sanders, Dusseldorf († 1989)
• Arie Stolk, Rockanje Z.H († 1990)

• Aart Heijkoop (5), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Schrier (1), Krabbendijke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Dirkje Goorberg van de (72), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Lodiers (86), Roosendaal (NL)
• Adrianus Johannes van den Huijsen (81), Delft
• Andreï Lvovitch comte Tolstoï (38), Petrograd
• Albert TORENBOSCH (60), Gasselte, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Huijgens (0), Made en Drimmelen, Noord Brabant
• Alida Looman (82), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Bijnen (54)

• 1908 » Telford Taylor, American general, lawyer, and historian († 1998)
• 1909 » August Derleth, American anthologist and author († 1971)
• 1914 » Ralph Erskine, English-Swedish architect, designed The Ark and Byker Wall († 2005)
• 1914 » Weldon Kees, American author, poet, painter, and pianist († 1955)
• 1915 » Jim Ferrier, Australian golfer († 1986)
• 1919 » John Carl Warnecke, American architect († 2010)
• 1921 » Abe Vigoda, American actor († 2016)
• 1922 » Richard Hamilton, English painter and academic († 2011)
• 1922 » Steven Hill, American actor († 2016)
• 1924 » Hal Herring, American football player and coach († 2014)

• 1876 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (b. 1809)
• 1879 » Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (b. 1825)
• 1910 » Osman Hamdi Bey, Greek archaeologist and painter (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (b. 1828)
• 1925 » Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1927 » Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (b. 1858)
• 1929 » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1930 » Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (b. 1850)
• 1953 » Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
• 1953 » Robert La Follette Jr., American politician, senator of Wisconsin (b. 1895)

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 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
• April 8 » In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.
• July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
• August 25 » The United States National Park Service is created.
• October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
• 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 February 24, 1916 was between -3.6 °C and -2.6 °C and averaged -2.9 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.