About the day » Tuesday January 16, 1912Calender converter

• Adriana Maria Esther APPELBOOM, Amsterdam
• Adam Jacob Punt, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Erkelens, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1912)
• Agina Alida Hendrika CLEWITS, Nord-Moslesfehn Oldenburg Lower Saxony Germany
• Albert Heerink, Bekveld, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Adriana SCHRÖDER, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Albert Brunink, Roswinkel († 1984)
• Alberdina Vegelin, Zuidhorn, Nederland († 1996)
• Alberdina van Ispelen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Goeree, Exloërmond

• Adrianus Zwaans, Udenhout
• Abraham Arie Zelessen (74), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Verkerk (59), Amsterdam
• Aaltje Verkerk (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Koch (76), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Jacobs Mol (69), Oudenhoorn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Golverdingen (1), Gorinchem
• Abraham Henriques de Souza (65), Amsterdam
• Stuut (0), Groningen
• Adrana Diena Schuddebeurs (45), Den Haag

• 1908 » Ethel Merman, American actress and singer († 1984)
• 1908 » Günther Prien, German captain († 1941)
• 1908 » Sammy Crooks, English footballer († 1981)
• 1909 » Clement Greenberg, American art critic († 1994)
• 1910 » Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1974)
• 1911 » Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile († 1982)
• 1911 » Ivan Barrow, Jamaican cricketer († 1979)
• 1911 » Roger Lapébie, French cyclist († 1996)
• 1914 » Roger Wagner, French-American conductor and educator († 1992)
• 1915 » Leslie H. Martinson, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2016)

• 1891 » Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer (b. 1836)
• 1898 » Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1901 » Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter and academic (b. 1827)
• 1901 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, American soldier, minister, and politician (b. 1822)
• 1901 » Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (b. 1825)
• 1906 » Marshall Field, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Marshall Field's (b. 1834)
• 1917 » George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
• 1919 » Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848)
• 1933 » Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish politician (b. 1867)
• 1936 » Albert Fish, American serial killer, rapist and cannibal (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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
• February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
• April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
• September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
• September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
• November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
• December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

The temperature on January 16, 1912 was between -4.2 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.