About the day » Saturday April 29, 1916Calender converter

• Bertha VAN BELLEGHEM, Lissewege,8380,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE († 1916)
• Adriaan Kroon, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Antonius Tuinier, Heteren († 1972)
• Bastiaan Matthijs HOUWELINGEN, van († 1985)
• Antje van der Noord, Zuidhorn (gem. Westerkartier) († 1917)
• Anna Carolina Avontuur, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1959)
• Angenietje Admiraal, Schiedam († 1916)
• Alida Maria Ham, Delft († 2000)
• Adriaan Cornelis HERRIJGERS, Rucphen,,PAYS BAS († 1977)
• Anna Elisabeth Schouten, Amsterdam († 1965)

• Adriana Oppers (80), Oploo, Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker
• Aleida Jansen (75), Elst (GL) The Netherlands
• Abe Dirks van der Wagen (74), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States
• Adriana Cornelia van 't Hoff (77), Rotterdam
• Agatha Maria Visser (37), Noordwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hubertus Lambertus de Jong (50), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Albert Dalmolen (Dalmollen,Dalm�llen) (83)
• Annigje Christiaans Schonewille (83), Hollandscheveld
• Adriana VAN DER KLEIJ (51), Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adelaide Wilhelmina Gemma KWAKKERNAAT (0), Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1912 » Richard Carlson, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1915 » Henry H. Barschall, German-American physicist and academic († 1997)
• 1917 » Celeste Holm, American actress and singer († 2012)
• 1917 » Maya Deren, Ukrainian-American director, poet, and photographer († 1961)
• 1918 » George Allen, American football player and coach († 1990)
• 1919 » Gérard Oury, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1920 » Edward Blishen, English author and radio host († 1996)
• 1920 » Harold Shapero, American composer († 2013)
• 1922 » Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcycle racer and journalist († 2001)
• 1922 » Toots Thielemans, Belgian guitarist and harmonica player († 2016)

• 1903 » Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1916 » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
• 1920 » William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
• 1921 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)
• 1944 » Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)
• 1945 » Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
• 1947 » Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (b. 1867)

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.
• March 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
• May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
• June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
• June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
• September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.

The temperature on April 29, 1916 was between 9.3 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.