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• Albert Harmsen, Loozen († 1985)
• Albertus Josephus Theunkens, Heppen, Limburg, België († 1918)
• Adriana Antonia van Breugel, Sint-Michielsgestel († 1918)
• Alida Joanna Catharina Spithoven, Cothen († 1917)
• Aagje Schenk, Urk († 1922)
• Anna Smit, Hippolytushoef (Wieringen) († 2002)
• Anna Maria Elizabeth RITTER, Wommels (Hennaarderadeel) Friesland Netherlands († 1999)
• Adriana Willemina Nijgh, Katwijk († 2008)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Nijgh, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Anna - Johanna Wilhelmina Maria Mensink, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1991)

• Alle Molles Bethlehem (62), Surhuizum, Nederland
• Anna Rosenboom (59), Wageningen
• Anna Calorina Chalsma (51)
• Aleida Roebers (66), den haag
• Arthur David King (34), Merced, Merced, California, United States
• Antje Hage (67), Woerden
• Anna Rosenboom (59), Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alle Bethlehem (62)
• Antonia Nendels (80), Maasdriel
• van Bergen, Dussen

• 1914 » Eleanor Sokoloff, American pianist and teacher († 2020)
• 1915 » John Tukey, American mathematician and academic († 2000)
• 1915 » Marga Faulstich, German glass chemist († 1998)
• 1917 » Aurelio Lampredi, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer († 1989)
• 1917 » Irving Penn, American photographer († 2009)
• 1917 » Katharine Graham, American publisher († 2001)
• 1917 » Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general and politician, President of Greece († 1999)
• 1920 » Isabelle Holland, Swiss-American author († 2002)
• 1920 » José López Portillo, Mexican lawyer and politician, 31st President of Mexico († 2004)
• 1920 » Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic († 2002)

• 1902 » Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and academic (b. 1841)
• 1918 » Bazil Assan, Romanian engineer and explorer (b. 1860)
• 1925 » Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar (b. 1871)
• 1930 » Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (b. 1860)
• 1930 » Ezra Fitch, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1866)
• 1939 » Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1905)
• 1940 » DuBose Heyward, American author (b. 1885)
• 1944 » Marc Bloch, French historian and academic (b. 1886)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Albert
13. Gerardus
14. Dirk
15. Wilhelmus
16. Antonius

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Trijntje

• 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 6.5 million citizens.
• March 8 » The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
• June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
• June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
• November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
• November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
• December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.

The temperature on June 16, 1917 was between 15.7 °C and 31.2 °C and averaged 23.0 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.