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• Aaltje Jacoba Ludriks, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Aleida Antonette da Roos, Herwen,, Gelderland, Nederland († 2003)
• (Stillborn) EPPINGA, Chicago Cook County Illinois U.S.A († 1916)
• Arendina Booij, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2001)
• Adriana Krijgsman, Rotterdam († 1919)
• Arie Schenk, Alkmaar († 1987)
• Antonia Elisabeth Willems, Weurt († 2003)
• Albertina Koolman, Arubase Antillen
• Abraham MIEOG, 's-Gravenhage († 1940)
• Augustinus Albertus Kennes, Paal († 1921)

• Adrianus Strijbos (58), Gemert
• Alphonse BENOIST (68), Sainte-Marie-du-Mont,50480,Manche,Normandie,FRANCE
• Anna Henriette Elisabeth Dorrepaal (43), Djokjakarta
• Aukjen Gerrits CLEWITS (30), Castricum Noord-Holland Netherlands
• Antkea Gerdes Spanjer (6), Blaukirchen, Ostfriesland, Hannover, Preußen
• Adrianus Antonius Pols (0), Dordrecht
• Aleida Theodora van der Velde (43), Zutphen
• Aleida Dela Bramer (29), Velp
• Aleida Dela Bramer (29), Velp, gem Rheden
• Albert Sanders (39), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1910 » Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and manager († 1979)
• 1910 » Herminio Masantonio, Argentinian footballer († 1956)
• 1911 » Robert Taylor, American actor and singer († 1969)
• 1912 » Abbé Pierre, French priest and humanitarian († 2007)
• 1914 » Parley Baer, American actor († 2002)
• 1916 » Peter Viereck, American poet and academic († 2006)
• 1918 » Betty Oliphant, English-Canadian ballerina, co-founded Canada's National Ballet School († 2004)
• 1918 » Tom Drake, American actor and singer († 1982)
• 1920 » George Tooker, American painter and academic († 2011)
• 1921 » Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer († 2014)

• 1895 » Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1901 » Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1840)
• 1904 » George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1834)
• 1911 » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864)
• 1916 » George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885)
• 1921 » Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
• 1929 » Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)
• 1933 » Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1935 » David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891)
• 1939 » Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)

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.
• June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
• September 8 » In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
• September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
• November 1 » In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
• November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
• 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 August 5, 1916 was between 7.8 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.