About the day » Friday January 16, 1914Calender converter

• Allegonda Mollen, Luiksgestel
• Alfred Carl Schwab, Minnesota († 2000)
• Andree CHARLIER
• Albert Reindina GARRETSEN, Hummelo
• (Stillborn) VAN DER WERF, Stadskanaal (Onstwedde) Groningen Netherlands († 1914)
• Adianus Antonius Maria Stoetzer, Tilburg
• Alberdina Dekker, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1991)
• Aaltje Talens, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 2013)
• van Nikkelen Kuijper, Rotterdam
• Adrianus van Assen, Waalwijk († 1914)

• Anna Maria MEEDER (81), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van Schaik (30), Maarssen
• Antje Vos (77), Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Willems (77), Nijmegen
• Adrianus de Goeij (63), Woensel
• Hendrik Hunze (74), Hoogeveen
• Aaltje Sybes Meerstra (74), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Bernardus Welbergen (80), Groningen
• Anna Maria Nabuurs (35), Oploo
• Antje de Graaf (67), Oostzaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 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)
• 1916 » Eddie Burns, Australian rugby league player and coach († 2004)
• 1916 » Philip Lucock, English-Australian minister and politician († 1996)
• 1917 » Carl Karcher, American businessman, founded Carl's Jr. († 2008)
• 1918 » Nel Benschop, Dutch poet and educator († 2005)

• 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. Jacobus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Antonius
14. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
16. Hendrikus

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

• 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 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 6.2 million citizens.
• January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
• April 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
• August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
• August 24 » World War I: German troops capture Namur.
• August 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
• September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.

The temperature on January 16, 1914 was between -6.5 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.