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• Adriana van Grunsven, Geffen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Scheepstra, Heereveen († 1965)
• Adele Cecilia Heitert, Missouri (State) († 1995)
• Anna Geertruida Christina van Itterson, Buurmalsen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1979)
• Anna Kluiter, Butler County, Iowa († 2005)
• Abraham van Ronkel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1916)
• Adriaan Krom, Uitgeest († 1979)
• Hartog, Ten Post († 1915)
• Aaltje Gerritsen, Putten († 2006)
• Anne Oldenziel, Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland

• Betje Meyer (0), Kooten, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Charles Louis Minnaert (78), Illinois (Usa)
• Hartog (0), Ten Post
• Jan van Dam (82), Moordrecht
• "Maria" Johanna Maria Johanna Maria (90), 's-Hertogenbosch, NL
• Antje Visser (73), Hoornschedijk, gem. Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertus Palmer Henri Windels (27), ingelmunster
• Albert Jan Van Ginderen (0), Gouda, Nederland
• Angeline M Mertz (76), Philadelphia Co.Pennsylvania
• Catharina Hendrika Christina van der Pijl (59), Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1909 » Mirza Nasir Ahmad, Indian-Pakistani religious leader († 1982)
• 1912 » George O. Petrie, American actor and director († 1997)
• 1912 » W. E. D. Ross, Canadian actor, playwright, and author († 1995)
• 1913 » Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress († 2015)
• 1914 » Eddie Chapman, English spy († 1997)
• 1915 » Jean Fritz, Chinese-American author († 2017)
• 1916 » Al Lucas, Canadian-American bassist († 1983)
• 1916 » Daws Butler, American voice actor and singer († 1988)
• 1916 » Harold Baigent, New Zealand actor and director († 1996)
• 1922 » Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer († 2015)

• 1903 » Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1895)
• 1907 » Robert I, Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
• 1908 » Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Premier of Quebec (b. 1829)
• 1911 » A. A. Ames, American physician and politician, 9th Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)
• 1911 » Lawrence Feuerbach, American shot putter (b. 1879)
• 1913 » George Barham, English businessman, founded Express County Milk Supply Company (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Max Abraham, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1875)
• 1939 » Pierce Butler, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Eduard Eelma, Estonian footballer (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1864)

• 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 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
• March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
• May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
• May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
• August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
• September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

The temperature on November 16, 1915 was between -3.1 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.