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• Brunetta Does, Hilversum († 1915)
• Anna Emer Peck, Needmore, Fulton County, Pennsylvania († 2001)
• Carl Horace Davis, Alabama († 1916)
• Adrianus Marinus Soffers, Woensdrecht, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1996)
• Nijpels, Rotterdam
• Boon, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1915)
• Baukje Hendriks de Jong, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2008)
• Aart van Belzen, Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland († 1915)
• Bernyce L . Vere Roderick, Hampton, Franklin, Iowa, United States († 1966)
• Carol Elizabeth Medemar, Grandville (Kent, Michigan, USA) († 2002)

• Adrianus Henricus van Geffen (1), Ammerzoden, Maasdriel, GE, Nederland
• Adriana Pieternella Wegen van der (0), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Gerardus ten Hoope (1), Bergen op Zoom
• Alle Deelstra (68), Zevenhuizen, Nederland
• Barend Hendrikus van Vugt (40), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• van de Weerd (0), Rhenen
• Cerile Casier (38), Handzame West-Vlaanderen België
• Catharina Verstraelen (46), Arendonk, België
• Anna Helena VOS (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Arie Heens (0), Gemeente De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland

• 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)
• 1919 » Karl-Heinz Euling, German captain († 2014)

• 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)
• 1938 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)

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 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
• February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
• May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
• July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
• September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
• September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

The temperature on August 16, 1915 was between 8.8 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.