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• Debora van der Woude, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Arie van Steenis, Waardenburg (NL) († 1928)
• Catharina Hendrika Kilian, Culemborg († 2010)
• Clifton Edward Hedgepeth, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah († 1990)
• van Gerven, Eindhoven, Zeelst († 1997)
• Bote Bauke Jorna, Exmorra († 2000)
• Catharina Maria Kemme, Wolvega († 2021)
• ?? Hensen, (UT) Veenendaal († 1928)
• Anna Koldewijn, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2016)
• Arend COMPAGNE, Anna Paulowna († 1991)

• Aalbert BUUNK (63), Doetinchem, Nederland, Gelderland, Ambt, Langerak
• Aaltje Tijmes (42), Groningen
• Hendrik Leendert Zijlmans van Emmichoven (1), Geertruidenberg
• Anna Bruinsma (85), Opsterland
• Adriaan Corneliss Heemskerk (63), Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred Hermann Ludwig Utermark (52), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Maria van Ophem (40), Avenhorn
• Amanda Turner (72)
• Anna Bruins Bruinsma (85), Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Verheijen (84), Tilburg

• 1923 » Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter († 2016)
• 1926 » John Schlesinger, English actor and director († 2003)
• 1926 » Margot Frank, German-Dutch holocaust victim († 1945)
• 1927 » June Brown, English actress
• 1929 » Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer and architect († 1980)
• 1929 » Peter Porter, Australian-English poet and educator († 2010)
• 1931 » Ken Takakura, Japanese actor and singer († 2014)
• 1931 » Otis Blackwell, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2002)
• 1932 » Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of Sierra Leone († 2014)
• 1932 » Gretchen Wyler, American actress, singer, and dancer († 2007)

• 1899 » Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1907 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1912 » Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
• 1917 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright ( (b. 1848)
• 1919 » Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
• 1928 » Eddie Foy Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
• 1932 » Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
• 1944 » Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1870)
• 1957 » Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1876)

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

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

• 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
• January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
• January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
• April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
• July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

The temperature on February 16, 1928 was between 9.2 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.