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• Alfons Bamps, Sint-Truiden, België († 1985)
• Agatha Margaretha Hesterina van der Hout, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Arina Meijer, Rotterdam (ZH NL)
• Albert George Poke, Somerset, Tasmania, Australia († 1989)
• Ann BURGESS, Preston, Tasmania, Australia († 1974)
• Adriana Johanna Brekelmans, Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1990)
• Andrew Louis Manders, Carson, Portage, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1928)
• Adriana Johanna Brekelmans, Udenhout,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1990)
• - levenloos- Westerbroek, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1906)
• Agatha Margaretha Hesterina van der Hout, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Adriana Schoonderwoerd (49), Lopik
• Albert Nijkamp (57), Laren (Gld.)
• Annigjen Meijer (82), Holthone (Gramsbergen)
• Anna Catharina Smit (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annigjen Meijer (82), Holthone
• Annegien Meijer (82), Holthone, Gramsbergen, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Abel Homan (37), Gaarkeuken (gemeente Grijpskerk)
• Anna Wouters (75), IJsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Lont (0), Wieringen
• Adrianus van Gerwen (39), Uden

• 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)
• 1904 » George F. Kennan, Scotch-Irish American historian and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union († 2005)
• 1904 » James Baskett, African-American actor and singer († 1948)
• 1905 » Henrietta Barnett, British Women's Royal Air Force officer († 1985)
• 1906 » Vera Menchik, British-Czechoslovak-Russian chess player († 1944)
• 1909 » Hugh Beaumont, American actor and director († 1982)
• 1909 » Richard McDonald, Irish-American businessman, co-founded McDonald's († 1998)

• 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)
• 1944 » Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1870)

• 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 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.
• June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
• August 5 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
• September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
• September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
• December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
• December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

The temperature on February 16, 1906 was between 0.4 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south.