About the day » Saturday September 16, 1916Calender converter

• Angelina Maria Mecca, Dunmore, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Bernard Hendrik Ben Minoli, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands († 1998)
• Charles Frederick Farrenkoff, Fayette, Texas († 1919)
• Anna Maria Van Camp, Putte, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1986)
• Bastiaan Verveer, Heerjansdam († 1991)
• Arthur H Artman, Mt Pleasant, Columbia Co, PA († 2004)
• August Albert Joseph Jamaerts, Wellen, België († 1966)
• Catharina Cornelia van der Meer, Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Akke de Heij, Oosterzee († 2001)
• Albertha Bruinekool († 2000)

• Arie Leeflang (77), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Beck (62), 's-Gravenhage
• Aalberta Gijsbertha Gerardina Mallan (34), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Verweij (59), Benschop
• Andries Pieter Machiel (36)
• N.N. Broeksteeg, Geffen
• Anthonia Verweij (59), Benschop
• Basil Wilson Duke (78), Manhattan, New York, NY
• Anna Schouten (45), Alkmaar
• Andrew Altom (51), Johnson, Texas

• 1914 » Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1999)
• 1915 » Cy Walter, American pianist († 1968)
• 1916 » Frank Farrell, Australian rugby league player and policeman († 1985)
• 1916 » Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian cricketer, umpire, and politician († 1999)
• 1916 » M. S. Subbulakshmi, an Indian Carnatic vocalist († 2004)
• 1916 » Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer († 1973)
• 1916 » Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis († 1978)
• 1918 » Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist († 1968)
• 1919 » Bill Daley, American football player and sportscaster († 2015)
• 1919 » Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American hierarchiologist and educator († 1990)

• 1896 » Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836)
• 1898 » Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (b. 1827)
• 1911 » Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840)
• 1914 » C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1925 » Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873)
• 1931 » Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)
• 1932 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1933 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager (b. 1857)

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 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
• March 9 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
• June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
• August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
• September 15 » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
• September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.

The temperature on September 16, 1916 was between 9.0 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.