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• Anna van Zwol, Drachten, Friesland, Netherlands († 1932)
• Bert van der Laak, Liessel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)
• Agnes Alida Maria van Nierop, Rotterdam († 1991)
• Anna Margaretha Maria van Leeuwen, Wassenaar († 1916)
• Alice Agnes de Milliano, Waterlandkerkje († 2000)
• Catharina Paulina Hubertina Maria Puts, Maasbracht, Limburg, Netherlands († 1916)
• Benjamin Nitters, Oude Pekela († 1916)
• Anna Lükens († 1991)
• Arentje Sperling, Maassluis, Z.H († 1995)
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Bogers, Barneveld († 1934)

• Abel Roelfs Cazemier (65), Roden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alice VERBRUGGEN (34), Overboelare,9500,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Bettje Reer (79), Nieuwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• "Alfred" Marie Bernard Le Merle de Beaufond (22), Verdun, Meuse, France
• Antje Mein (0), Eexta, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Arthur Walter Tasker (29), Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand
• Adriaan Brands (68), Loon op Zand
• Anna Wilhelmina van Dijk (76), Rhenen, Utrecht, NL
• Ariena Kraaijeveld (65), Soest
• Arend Wilmink (0), Doesburg

• 1912 » David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia († 1979)
• 1912 » Gego, German-Venezuelan sculptor and academic († 1994)
• 1912 » Henry Jones, American actor († 1999)
• 1914 » Alan Moore, Australian painter and educator († 2015)
• 1914 » J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1914 » Jack Delano, American photographer and composer († 1997)
• 1916 » Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet († 2000)
• 1916 » Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal († 2014)
• 1918 » T. J. Jemison, American minister and activist († 2013)
• 1919 » Stanley Middleton, English author († 2009)

• 1903 » Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
• 1911 » Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1911 » Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (b. 1843)
• 1918 » John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
• 1920 » Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and journalist (b. 1856)
• 1921 » T.J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1922 » Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1938 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)

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 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
• June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
• July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
• July 19 » World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
• August 29 » The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
• December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

The temperature on August 1, 1916 was between 12.5 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.