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• de Vos, Oosterhout, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1914)
• Adolphina Hendrika Charlotte Henneman, Utrecht († 1963)
• Adrianus Franciscus Van den Bempt, hoeven
• Aletta Rijkland van Schuppen, Veenendaal († 2001)
• Aalbert Johannes Brusse, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1914)
• Adianus Antonius Maria Stoetzer, Tilburg Nederland
• (Stillborn) VAN DER WERF, Stadskanaal (Onstwedde) Groningen Netherlands († 1914)
• van Nikkelen Kuijper, Rotterdam
• Abraham Henricus Pieter Sigterman, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alfred Carl Schwab, Minnesota († 2000)

• Anne Marie Vanighem (69), Halle
• (Stillborn) VAN DER WERF (0), Stadskanaal (Onstwedde) Groningen Netherlands
• Anne Cornelis Gerrit SNETHLAGE (49), Jakarta, Indonesia
• Anna Maria MEEDER (81), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aldegundis van den Reek (50), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alice Marie FOBE (68), Bruxelles, 21004, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Anna Geertrui VERKES (74), Vogelenzang
• Adriaan Damen (74), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant Nederland
• Arie Teuntje Vaandrager (2), Charlois
• (Stillbirth) VAN DER WERF (0), Stadskanaal, Onstwedde

• 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)

• 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.
• July 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
• August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
• August 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
• September 11 » World War I: Australia invades German New Guinea, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
• September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
• December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.

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.