About the day » Tuesday March 16, 1909Calender converter

• A.F. de Groot († 1971)
• Adriana Spruijt, Rotterdam († 1976)
• Annigje van der Laan, Gouda († 1981)
• Antonia van Dijk, Rotterdam
• Alida Catharina Sanders, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1973)
• Kaptein, Enschede
• Anna Maria Janssen, Hees (gemeente Nijmegen)
• Alfred Patrick Stearns, Pensacola, Florida, Verenigde Staten († 1976)
• Annetje (Annette) Bosma, Winterswijk († 1995)
• Antonia Maria Verschuren, Ginneken en Bavel

• Alphons Keijner (51), Semarang NOI
• Alexander Andres Rox (80), Vaals (Vaals) (Limburg)
• Anna Johanna Catharina Riemeijer (0), Heiligerlee (Scheemda)
• Casimirus Baeyens (72), Denderhoutem
• Anton KOHLERT (85), Graslitz,35801,Karlsbader Region,NORDWESTEN,TSCHECHIEN
• Anna Maria Catharina Dams (71), Halmaal, België
• Catharina Berendsen (83)
• Anne Marie Hauwaerts (86), Ixelles
• Adrianus de Vos (73), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arnoldus Lancee (75), Veenhuizen (Norg)

• 1906 » Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and translator († 2009)
• 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)
• 1910 » Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer († 1991)
• 1910 » Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian-English cricketer and politician, 8th Nawab of Pataudi († 1952)
• 1911 » Josef Mengele, German physician and captain († 1979)
• 1911 » Philip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (d.2005)
• 1911 » Pierre Harmel, Belgian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium († 2009)

• 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)
• 1925 » August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
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 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.
• March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
• March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
• 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 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
• September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

The temperature on March 16, 1909 was between -2.8 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.