About the day » Tuesday February 16, 1892Calender converter

• Adam van Dijke, Dirksland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart van Heemsbergen, Veenendaal († 1974)
• Aaltje hendricks Kriek, Huizen († 1972)
• Adrianus Joannes Dionijsius de Laat, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1894)
• Aan Bijlsma, Dantumade († 1967)
• Abraham Amperse, Kortgene
• Aaltje Prummel, Wildervank (NL) († 1971)
• Albert August Frans MICHIELSSEN, Ekeren, 11014, Antwerpen, Belgique († 1953)
• Albert Harmszn. Prins, Horsten Gem Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1972)
• Albert Van Putten, Welcome Township,Sioux,Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1971)

• Aaltje Aleida Brusse (65), Zelhem
• Tjeert Janssonius (16), Ameland
• Annegien Hendriksdochter BOVENDEUR (76), Barsbeek, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alette Cornelie Guillomine Küpfer (79), Lent (Nijmegen), Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van den Berg (35), Haarlem
• Aaltjen Aleida Brussen (65), Halle (Bronckhorst)
• Aalbert Johannes van Mourik (0), Buurmalsen
• Adriana Hokke (0), Charlois, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Anna Maria Clara Donders (47), Tilburg, Nederland
• Aleida Kwakman (22), Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1884 » Robert J. Flaherty, German-Irish American director and producer († 1951)
• 1886 » Andy Ducat, English international footballer (forward and manager) and Cricketer († 1942)
• 1887 » Kathleen Clifford, American actress († 1962)
• 1891 » Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic († 1968)
• 1893 » Katharine Cornell, American actress and producer († 1974)
• 1896 » Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian († 2010)
• 1901 » Chester Morris, American actor († 1970)
• 1901 » Wayne King, American singer-songwriter and conductor († 1985)
• 1902 » Cyril Vincent, South African cricketer († 1968)
• 1903 » Edgar Bergen, Swedish-American ventriloquist and actor († 1978)

• 1862 » William Pennington American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796)
• 1898 » Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
• 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)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 15 » James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
• June 6 » The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
• July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
• September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
• September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
• October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.

The temperature on February 16, 1892 was about -5.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.