About the day » Thursday March 16, 1899Calender converter

• Adrianus Cornelis Judocus Couwenbergh, Hees, Nederland
• Alfons Jozef Hemelaer, Temse († 1899)
• Akke Jans Meyer, Exmorra, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1988)
• Aili Sylvia Aarne († 1899)
• Albert Jan Plekkenpol, Harfsen
• Albert de Graaf, Scheveningen
• Akke Jans Meyer, Exmorra, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1988)
• Adriana Barbara van Dam, Zevenjuizen
• <> Pieter Bijlefeld, Tjamsweer gem. Appingedam († 1958)
• Albertus Wilhelmus Crane, Harderwijk († 1944)

• Alexander Jacobus van der Bijl (75), SomersetWest (Zuid-Afrika)
• Adrianus Cornelis Bongers (0), ottoland (zuid holland)
• Anneke Vroege (75), Beesd
• Ana Conradi (50), Antonio Carlos, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Aloys Emile Lodewijk Bentzel Graaf van Sternau-Hohenau (76), München, Oberbayern, Beieren
• Hemminga, Stiens
• Amos Meader (66), West Plattsburgh, Clinton Co., New York, Verenigde Staten
• Aart Kusters (75), DRUTEN, GD, NL
• Adrianus Rosenboom (0), Ede, Nederland
• Aart Kusters (75), Druten, Nederland

• 1892 » César Vallejo, Peruvian poet, playwright, and journalist († 1938)
• 1895 » Ernest Labrousse, French historian († 1988)
• 1897 » Antonio Donghi, Italian painter († 1963)
• 1897 » Conrad Nagel, American actor († 1970)
• 1900 » Cyril Hume, American novelist († 1966)
• 1900 » Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin († 1964)
• 1901 » Alexis Chantraine, Belgian footballer († 1987)
• 1903 » Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan († 2001)
• 1906 » Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and translator († 2009)
• 1906 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh-English cricketer and rugby player († 1944)

• 1884 » Art Croft, American baseball player (b. 1855)
• 1888 » Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (b. 1801)
• 1892 » Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
• 1898 » Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (b. 1872)
• 1899 » Joseph Medill, American journalist and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
• 1903 » Roy Bean, American lawyer and judge (b. 1825)
• 1907 » John O'Leary, Irish politician (b. 1830)
• 1912 » Max Burckhard, Austrian theater director (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1914 » Gaston Calmette, French journalist (b. 1858)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Neeltje
14. Petronella
15. Geertruida
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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
• March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
• March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
• May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
• November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

The temperature on March 16, 1899 was about 2.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.