About the day » Thursday March 16, 1905Calender converter

• Alle de Vries, Surhuizum, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1972)
• Albertus Christiaan Johannes Larsen, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Aleida Blokdijk, 's-Gravenhage
• Albertus Lamme, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1986)
• Anna Auguste Gepke Niezen, Bremen, Dld († 1979)
• Abraham Rijnberg, Rotterdam († 1978)
• Adolf van Dam, Arnhem
• Anna van de Logt, Groesbeek
• Aartje Cornelia Kievith, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Nederland († 1905)
• Adrianus Hoevenaar, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1984)

• Agnes de Groot (0), Bergen op Zoom, NL
• Arentje Moerman (60), Oostvoorne, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart de Boer (33), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Tax (0)
• Andries de Boer (34), Lansing (USA)
• Anje Borgman (74), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaan Cornelis Nederlof (50), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adam Hartwig (68), Soekaboemi, West Java, Indonesië
• Andries De Boer (34), Lansing (USA)
• Arie den Hollander (2), Hazerswoude

• 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 » Henny Youngman, English-American violinist and comedian († 1998)
• 1906 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh-English cricketer and rugby player († 1944)
• 1908 » Ernest Rogez, French water polo player († 1986)
• 1908 » René Daumal, French author and poet († 1944)
• 1908 » Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1966)

• 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)
• 1914 » John Murray, Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (b. 1841)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
• May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
• October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
• October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
• December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
• December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.

The temperature on March 16, 1905 was between 2.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.