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• Adriaantje Pieternella van den Houten, Dreischor, Zeeland, Nederland († 1994)
• Alphonse Joseph Jenné, Sint-Truiden, België
• Aaffien Ensing, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen
• Plenk († 1910)
• Anna Christina Adriana Blokland, Amsterdam
• Aaldert Antonie van Ewijk, Ingen (Lienden), Nederland
• Afina Bouwina Burema, 't Zandt,, Groningen, Nederland († 1990)
• Amelie Van den Broeck, Berlaar, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1988)
• Albert Koster, Stadskanaal († 1999)
• Anna Christina Adriana Blokland, Amsterdam († 1977)

• Adriana Johanna Maria Balkenende (0), Hillegom (Zuid-Holland, Nederland)
• Annegien Rozeboom (87), Vollenhove, Steenwijkerland, Nederland
• Anthonie Wouter van den Berg (75), Bruinisse
• Alida van Haastrecht (72), Stompwijk
• Adriaan Kemps (71), Udenhout
• Adriana Ludovica de Ronde (0), Dussen
• Arend Brookman (0), Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Allegonda Veronica van Kessel (0), Maarheeze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Wagner (71), Bennington, Ottawa, Kansas, Verenigde Staten
• van Leeuwen (0), Zoeterwoude

• 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)
• 1914 » Jimmy Wakely, American country music singer-songwriter and actor († 1982)
• 1916 » Bill Doggett, African-American pianist and composer († 1996)

• 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)

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

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. Geertruida
14. Helena
15. Aaltje
16. Neeltje

• 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 5.9 million citizens.
• January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
• April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
• September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
• October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
• November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
• November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

The temperature on February 16, 1910 was between -0.2 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.