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• Berend Hendrik Tapken († 1973)
• Adrianus Josephus Maria Oor, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1998)
• Arie Kreuk, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Alphonse Albert Leenen, Sint-Truiden, België († 1917)
• Arie KREUK, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Arend Booij, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1917)
• Adriaan Briceno († 1992)
• Aafje Verboon, Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederlands († 2003)
• Adolfine Gerdina Gesina Jenny Elisabeth Kamerlingh Onnes, Overveen,Gemeente Bloemendaal,North Holland,Netherlands († 1970)
• Berend Hendrik Tapken, Jipsingboertange, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1973)

• Aaltje Broekhuizen (72), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Catharina Engels (70), Wageningen
• Aagje Janneke Schilfgaarden van (74), Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje BROEKHUIJZEN (72), Delft
• Aagje Maria van Schilfgaarden (74), Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Adrianus Jacobus LEGET (90), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Angenieta Riphagen (0), Oene
• Berend Greveling (86)
• Albertus Antonius Ludovicus Willems (0), Lillo, Provincie Antwerpen
• Abraham Teune (76), Deventer

• 1912 » Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer, and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1988)
• 1915 » Henry Hicks, Canadian academic and politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia († 1990)
• 1915 » Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic († 2002)
• 1918 » James Tobin, American economist and academic († 2002)
• 1918 » Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 2017)
• 1918 » Red Storey, Canadian football player, referee, and sportscaster († 2006)
• 1920 » José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist († 2009)
• 1920 » Rachel Gurney, English actress († 2001)
• 1920 » Virginia Christine, American actress († 1996)
• 1920 » Wang Zengqi, Chinese writer († 1997)

• 1893 » Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
• 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1895 » Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
• 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
• 1929 » David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)
• 1935 » Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877)
• 1940 » Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and academic (b. 1868)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Helena
16. Neeltje

• 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 6.4 million citizens.
• January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
• January 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
• April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
• May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
• August 25 » The United States National Park Service is created.
• September 11 » The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.

The temperature on March 5, 1916 was between -2.1 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.