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• Catharina Maria van Duijnhoven, Rijkevoort († 1958)
• Alfons Haustraete, Michelbeke († 1980)
• Angeline Schonck, Amsterdam († 2001)
• Adele Helouise MacDonald, Paramaribo Suriname († 2001)
• Anthonius Dorresteijn, Soest, NL († 1916)
• Adeline Erdt, Michigan (State) († 1977)
• Antonius Hendrikus Heuven, Luttenberg († 1988)
• Adolph Halver Ussing, Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho, United States of America († 1996)
• Carolina Hendrika in 't Hout, Rotterdam († 1919)
• Adriana de Vet, Waalwijk († 1916)

• Antoine Desiré WERY (77), La Hulpe, Waals-Brabant, België
• Antje Jans Oosterbaan (63), Bussum
• (1) Hendricus de Vries (27), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Agnes L Burden (26), Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Berend Panjer (49), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Raspe (24), Groningen
• Barbara Huijser (85), Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Barbara Huijser (85), Arnhem-Gelderland-Nederland
• Berend Panjer (49)
• Berendina Antonia Beömer (80), Voorst

• 1912 » Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1915 » André Lichnerowicz, French mathematician († 1998)
• 1915 » Orazio Mariani, Italian sprinter († 1981)
• 1916 » Pietro Rava, Italian footballer († 2006)
• 1916 » Zypora Spaisman, Polish midwife; American and Yiddish-language actress; producer of the Yiddish stage († 2002)
• 1917 » Erling Persson, H&M founder († 2002)
• 1918 » Antonio Janigro, Italian cellist and conductor († 1989)
• 1918 » Jimmy Hagan, English footballer († 1998)
• 1918 » Richard Winters, American soldier († 2011)
• 1919 » Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot († 2016)

• 1901 » Elisha Gray, American engineer, co-founded Western Electric (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1857)
• 1918 » Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (b. 1857)
• 1919 » Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 277th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Gojong of Korea (b. 1852)
• 1924 » Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1926 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1928 » George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer (b. 1858)
• 1931 » Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1932 » Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic (b. 1880)

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 9 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
• June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
• November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
• November 30 » Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
• December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).

The temperature on January 21, 1916 was between 4.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.