About the day » Thursday December 16, 1909Calender converter

• Antje Halbes van der Velde, Drachten († 2000)
• Adrianus Marinus Naaktgeboren, rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Antonius Alardus Petrus Peperkamp, Nijmegen († 1989)
• Alida Johanna Stol, Leiden
• adriana DOORNHEIN, rotterdam
• Antje van der Velde, Dragten, Nederland
• Aaltje Cornelia Leuvenink, Lekkerkerk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Houben († 1996)
• Antonius Cornelis Franciscus van Doormalen, Tilburg
• Adriana Elisabeth Kruijt, Amsterdam († 1959)

• Aagje Edel (20)
• Adriana Hermans (40), Hooge en Lage Mierde, Reusel
• Adelheid van Lowenstein Wertheim (78), Ryde
• Adelheid van Löwenstein-Wertheim (78), Ryde
• Adelaïde de Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (78)
• Adélaide Sophie Agnès zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (78), Ryde
• *Arie Verboom (73), Giessendam
• Adriana Cornelia Elisabeth Koevoets (1), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Greven (78)
• Aaltje van Maanen (52), Nijkerk

• 1902 » Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet and playwright († 1999)
• 1903 » Hardie Albright, American actor († 1975)
• 1903 » Harold Whitlock, English race walker and coach († 1985)
• 1905 » Piet Hein, Danish mathematician, author, and poet († 1996)
• 1907 » Barbara Kent, Canadian-born American film actress († 2011)
• 1908 » Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter & anarchist († 1963)
• 1910 » Freddie Brown, Peruvian-English cricketer and sportscaster († 1991)
• 1913 » George Ignatieff, Russian-Canadian scholar and diplomat, 8th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations († 1989)
• 1914 » O. Winston Link, American photographer († 2001)
• 1916 » Ruth Johnson Colvin, American author and educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide

• 1892 » Henry Yesler, American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1810)
• 1897 » Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1898 » Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
• 1908 » American Horse, American tribal leader and educator (b. 1840)
• 1917 » Frank Gotch, American wrestler (b. 1878)
• 1921 » Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1835)
• 1922 » Gabriel Narutowicz, Lithuanian–Polish engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1865)
• 1928 » Elinor Wylie, American poet and author (b. 1885)
• 1935 » Thelma Todd, American actress and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1936 » Frank Eugene, American-German photographer and educator (b. 1865)

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
• January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
• February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
• February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
• March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
• August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.

The temperature on December 16, 1909 was between -5.6 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.