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• Anthony Hendricus Borgman, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1917)
• Antonia Maria Kottig, Gronau, 48599, Duitsland († 1915)
• Antje Everdina Pijper, Tjuchem, Slochteren, Groningen, Netherlands († 2007)
• Antonius Franciscus Vissers, Ginneken en Bavel († 2000)
• Albertus Lambertus Cornelis Duijvelaar, Teteringen, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Anthony Hendricus Borgman, Monster († 1917)
• Andrea Schrauwers, Amsterdam († 2006)
• August Albert DE SMEDT, Wolvertem,1861,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE († 1985)
• Arend Jan Gerrit Meutstege, Deldenerbroek, Ambt Delden, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1994)
• Antonetta Johanna van den Heuvel, Woensel († 1915)

• Christoph Fredrich Pfeffer (69), Murr, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
• Antonie van Loon (17), Bodegraven
• Christina Rackwitz (19), Dordrecht
• Auke Tiesnitsch (0), Sint Annaparochie, Friesland, Netherlands
• de Boer (0)
• Anna Mary Meilink (49), Toledo
• Anna Elisabeth Dürken (71), Schwefingen
• Margien de Jonge (0), Oranjedorp Emmen
• Bernard Joseph Hudepohl (41), Princenhage, Nederland
• Rigtje Meines (58), Hennaarderadeel

• 1911 » Paul Henning, American screenwriter and producer († 2005)
• 1911 » Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist and author († 1983)
• 1914 » Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1999)
• 1915 » Cy Walter, American pianist († 1968)
• 1916 » Frank Farrell, Australian rugby league player and policeman († 1985)
• 1916 » Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian cricketer, umpire, and politician († 1999)
• 1916 » M. S. Subbulakshmi, an Indian Carnatic vocalist († 2004)
• 1916 » Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer († 1973)
• 1916 » Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis († 1978)
• 1918 » Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist († 1968)

• 1896 » Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836)
• 1898 » Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (b. 1827)
• 1911 » Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840)
• 1914 » C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1925 » Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873)
• 1931 » Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)
• 1932 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1933 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager (b. 1857)

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.
• 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 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.
• May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
• July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
• August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.

The temperature on September 16, 1915 was between 10.9 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.