About the day » Saturday June 16, 1900Calender converter

• Alida OPDAM, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Aaltje Uilkes Dijkstra, Hogebeintum († 1959)
• Anna Elisabeth Joanna Haans, Tilburg
• Adriana Maria Wilhelmina Gommers, Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Albertus Antonius Wassing, Wieken (Gelderland)
• Adriana den Boer, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1985)
• Adrienne Van den Bogaerde, Audenarde, East Flanders, Belgium († 1979)
• Aaltje Bos, Barneveld († 1927)
• Amélie Marie Léonie GUILLEMOT, Trémeur, 22250, France († 1949)
• Adolf Jozef Louis Starmans, Klimmen, Limburg, Nederland

• Alberta Sophia Ekker (73), Utrecht
• Anna Maria Spies (80), lienden
• Andrew Jackson Brown (48), Black Jack Grove, Hopkins, Texas, United States
• Antonetta Anna Prince (1), Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Albertus Willem van den Bos (0), De Lier
• Albertus Christianus van Vliet (0), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje Bak (17), Zuid-Scharwoude
• Andreas Eichhorn (81), New Hamburg, Scott County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Diekerhof (11), Deventer
• Anna Maria Spies (71)

• 1890 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian († 1965)
• 1896 » Murray Leinster, American author and screenwriter († 1976)
• 1897 » Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1899 » Helen Traubel, American operatic soprano († 1972)
• 1902 » Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1902 » George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist and author († 1984)
• 1906 » Alan Fairfax, Australian cricketer († 1955)
• 1907 » Jack Albertson, American actor († 1981)
• 1909 » Archie Carr, American ecologist and zoologist († 1987)
• 1910 » Juan Velasco Alvarado, Peruvian general and politician, 1st President of Peru († 1977)

• 1872 » Norman MacLeod, Scottish minister and author (b. 1812)
• 1878 » Crawford Long, American surgeon and pharmacist (b. 1815)
• 1878 » Kikuchi Yōsai, Japanese painter (b. 1781)
• 1881 » Josiah Mason, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)
• 1885 » Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter and academic (b. 1818)
• 1886 » Alexander Stuart, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1824)
• 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)

• 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.
• January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
• February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
• February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
• May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
• May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
• July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.

The temperature on June 16, 1900 was about 17.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.