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• Anna Helena Viskaal, Vroomshoop
• Ann Baldwinn Sibley, Chicago,Cook County,Il,United States
• Adriaan Marie Vierling, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1913)
• Abraham Izaak Kornelis, Biervliet Zeeland
• Adriana Elisabeth Altorf, Wassenaar
• Anna Cornelia de Vink, Utrecht
• Anna Cornelia Wuijts, Roosendaal (Roosendaal en Nispen) (Noord-Brabant)
• Anna Elisabeth Caspers, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1913)
• Adriana Cornelia Van Der Maas, Utrecht,,Nederland († 1913)
• (Stillborn) POMSTRA, Achtkarspelen Friesland Netherlands († 1913)

• Anna Rijks (0), Alteveer, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• AALTJE DE ZOETE (32), LOOSDUINEN
• Aaltje de Zoete (32), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Bonfield Hoadley (65), Napier New Zeland
• Akke Zijlstra (60), Dantumadeel (Dantumadeel) (Friesland)
• Benjamin Zwicker (78)
• Antonia Maria Leopoldina Hacfort Tot Ter Horst (73), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berend Eikendal (72), Hoog Soeren
• Albert Gerrits Bruulsema (0), Dwingeloo, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Cathalina Goedegebuure (0), Stavenisse, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1909 » Paul Callaway, American organist and conductor († 1995)
• 1910 » Gloria Blondell, American actress († 1986)
• 1910 » Mae Clarke, American actress († 1992)
• 1911 » E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician († 1977)
• 1912 » Ted Drake, English footballer and manager († 1995)
• 1913 » Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli politician, Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1915 » Al Hibbler, American baritone singer († 2001)
• 1916 » Iggy Katona, American race car driver († 2003)
• 1917 » Matt Christopher, American author († 1997)
• 1917 » Roque Cordero, Panamanian composer and educator († 2008)

• 1888 » John Pemberton, American pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
• 1893 » Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811)
• 1900 » José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)
• 1904 » Prentiss Ingraham, American soldier and author (b. 1843)
• 1911 » Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (b. 1830)
• 1914 » Carl Theodor Schulz, German-Norwegian gardener (b. 1835)
• 1916 » George Scott, English footballer (b. 1885)
• 1920 » Henry Daglish, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1866)
• 1921 » Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
• February 17 » The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
• May 30 » The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War; Albania becomes an independent nation.
• June 23 » Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
• October 9 » The steamship SSVolturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
• December 1 » Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
• December 14 » Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.

The temperature on August 16, 1913 was between 10.5 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.