About the day » Tuesday January 16, 1912Calender converter

• Alberdina Vegelin, Zuidhorn († 1996)
• Erkelens, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1912)
• Adriana Cijvat, Koudekerke, Zeeland, NL
• Agatha Maria Mineur, Rotterdam
• Adriana Biemans, Loon op Zand († 1992)
• "susanna Elizabeth" X, South Africa († 1992)
• Albert Vandenberghe, Watou, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1912)
• Adrianus Buijks, Enschede
• Alberdina van Ispelen, Rotterdam
• Alberdina Vegelin, Zuidhorn, Nederland († 1996)

• Aleida de Wit (77), Leusden
• Adriana van GINNEKEN (van GINNEKE) (83), Zevenbergen,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Albert Johannes Woudenberg (68), Apeldoorn
• Anna van Sprenger (83), Dresden, Saksen
• Aaltjen Wunderink (0), Brummen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida van Scherpenzeel (0), Polsbroek, Nederland
• Adriana Golverdingen (1), Gorinchem
• Aaltje Van Tuil (69), Maurik
• Aaltje Berends ter Horst (83), Nieuweroord (Westerbork)
• van Mourik (0), Beesd

• 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)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Helena
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 6.0 million citizens.
• January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
• January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
• September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
• November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
• December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
• December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

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.