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• Anna Leonina Abreu de Araujo Livramento, Sao Paulo, Brasil († 1996)
• Adriana van den Berg, Bergambacht († 1916)
• Adrianus Henricus Mutsaers, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1917)
• Antonius Gerardus van Rijswijk, Berkel († 2007)
• Adriana Leonarda Bauling, Bovenkarspel
• Antje Koehoorn, Leeuwarden, 8910, Nederland († 1993)
• Adrianus Kreeft, Stellendam († 1936)
• Aaltje Koerts († 1993)
• Antonius van Venrooij, Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1917)
• Roijakkers, Manchester, Groot Brittanië († 1985)

• Aagje de Wit (95), Heemskerk
• Agatha Janz de Wit (95), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Angenieta Louisa Johanna van der Beek (25), Delft
• Albert Klases Boonstra (81), New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Agatha Jansdr de Wit (95), Heemskerk
• Albert Waninge (0), Pesse
• Aagje Jansdr (Agatha) de Wit (95), Heemskerk
• Anna van Maastrigt (74), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha de Wit- (95), Heemskerk, Nederland
• Antje Wolters Venema (87), Feerwerd (Ezinge) Gem. Winsum

• 1911 » Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player († 1966)
• 1914 » Anacleto Angelini, Italian-Chilean businessman († 2007)
• 1914 » Irving Brecher, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1914 » Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot († 2015)
• 1914 » William Stafford, American poet and author († 1993)
• 1916 » Peter Frelinghuysen Jr., American lieutenant and politician († 2011)
• 1917 » M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor, director, and politician, 5th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu († 1987)
• 1918 » George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania († 2013)
• 1918 » Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Education († 1994)
• 1920 » Georges Pichard, French author and illustrator († 2003)

• 1903 » Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
• 1908 » Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
• 1909 » Francis Smith, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819)
• 1911 » Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, and geographer (b. 1822)
• 1927 » Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
• 1930 » Gauhar Jaan, One of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India. (b. 1873)
• 1931 » Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (b. 1864)
• 1932 » Ahmet Derviş, Turkish general (b. 1881)
• 1932 » Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1893)
• 1933 » Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848)

• 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.
• February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
• February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
• May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
• June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 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.
• November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.

The temperature on January 17, 1916 was between 5.0 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.