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• Aaltje Veldkamp, Oldebroek (Molecaten),, Gelderland, Nederland († 1984)
• Adrianus Franciscus (Ad) van Roessel, Oisterwijk, Nederland († 1987)
• Adriaan du Pree, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Bastiaan van Steenis, Herwijnen (NL)
• Anna Petronella Börger, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Catharina Johanna van Amelsfoort, Goirle († 2001)
• Anna Mohren, Koningsbosch, Netherlands († 2007)
• Albertus Jacobus van Nuland, Anna Paulowna († 2005)
• Adriaan den Beer, Axel,Zeeland,Nederland († 1990)
• Adrianus Johannes Hoefsloot, Amersfoort († 1944)

• "Adelheid Franziska" Marie Christine Alice zu Salm-Salm (76), Paderborn, Allemagne
• Cornelia Jacoba Bontje (0), Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, Netherlands
• Amber O Keith (33), Margaret, Saint Clair, Alabama
• Elisabeth Catharina Van Rosmalen (77), Leiden
• Antje Kroeze (52), Winschoten
• Cornelia Jacoba Bontje (0), Haarlemmermeer
• Aaltje Schut (83), Bovenstreek (Oldebroek)
• Adeline Elizabeth Veronee (57), Charleston, Dorchester, South Carolina, United States
• * Hendrik Worst (0), Nijkerk, Gelderland, NL
• Clara Drielsma (31), Toxteth,Liverpool, Lancashire, England, Great Britain

• 1913 » Don DeFore, American actor († 1993)
• 1913 » Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator († 1973)
• 1916 » Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2003)
• 1916 » Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot († 2000)
• 1916 » Van Johnson, American actor († 2008)
• 1917 » Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer († 2008)
• 1918 » Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1990)
• 1918 » Richard Greene, English actor († 1985)
• 1919 » George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama († 1998)
• 1919 » William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator († 2010)

• 1900 » Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)
• 1904 » Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
• 1908 » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1916 » Mary Tappan Wright, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)
• 1924 » Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)
• 1924 » Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor, and writer of prose and poetry (b. 1858)
• 1925 » Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Frankie Campbell, American boxer (b. 1904)
• 1931 » Dorothea Fairbridge, South African author and co-founder of Guild of Loyal Women (b. 1862)

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 10 » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
• January 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
• March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
• April 24 » Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
• October 7 » Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
• December 18 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.

The temperature on August 25, 1916 was between 14.7 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.