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• Ada Irene Pearce Combest [sWksFwkmctBu]Wk? "Irene" († 1988)
• Albertus Dijken van, Valburg († 1992)
• Augusta van Puijvelde, Clinge,, Zeeland, Nederland († 2001)
• Berend Blaauw, Groningen († 1986)
• Donald Stewart OATES, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia († 1997)
• Cornelia Johanna Spruit, Montfoort Utr († 2011)
• D. J. BARNHART, Nez Perce Idaho U.S.A († 1996)
• Cornelia Maria Johanna Bax, Tilburg († 1993)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Maas, Maarheeze († 1917)
• Charles Constantine Darby, Lititz, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica († 1973)

• Antje Gerrits van der Meulen (61), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Antoon Arts (72), Oeffelt
• Aalt Cornelis Snellen (61), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Elizabeth Pietersz (59), Semarang, Nederlands Oost-Indië
• Anna Angela Siemers (1), Ter Apelkanaal, Westerwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Antoon Arts (72), Oeffelt
• Anna Catharina Pauwels (74), Berendrecht, Provincie Antwerpen
• Berendina van Osenbruggen (0), Rhenen
• Beekman (77), Bolwerkstraatje 3, wijk 5, Leiden
• Antje Gerrits van der Meulen (61), Bolsward, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1908 » Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator († 2006)
• 1911 » Otto von Bülow, German commander († 2006)
• 1912 » Clifford Hansen, American rancher and politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming († 2009)
• 1918 » Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic († 2013)
• 1918 » Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic († 1990)
• 1918 » Tony Rolt, English race car driver and engineer († 2008)
• 1919 » Kathleen Winsor, American journalist and author († 2003)
• 1921 » MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder († 2010)
• 1921 » Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach († 2013)
• 1921 » Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and writer († 2003)

• 1888 » John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
• 1904 » Haritina Korotkevich, Russian heroine (b. 1882)
• 1908 » Joseph Leycester Lyne, English monk (b. 1837)
• 1909 » Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, German poet and playwright (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Ralph Rose, American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower (b. 1885)
• 1936 » Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)
• 1937 » Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1946 » Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• 1947 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Neeltje
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 6.3 million citizens.
• January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
• January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
• January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
• March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
• July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
• August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

The temperature on October 16, 1915 was between 3.4 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.