About the day » Tuesday October 3, 1916Calender converter

• Andrew W Prescott, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England († 1972)
• Alexander Dragstra, Kraij, Essen, Duitsland († 2013)
• Abraham Grit, Smilde († 1997)
• Andries Marinus van Harmelen, Amsterdam († 1917)
• Anje Johanna Ten Hove, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1996)
• Catharina Wilhelmina Tramper, Amsterdam († 1986)
• Adrianus Antonius van der Valk, Naaldwijk († 1985)
• Adrianus Antonius (Adriaan) van der Valk, Naaldwijk († 1985)
• Adriana Westerlaken, 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland († 1917)
• Albertus Laureys, Zichem, Scherpenheuvel, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium († 1989)

• Adriana van ANDEL (57), Dordrecht
• Arendina Antonia Rijks (90)
• Albert Veenstra (85), Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaan van Tillo (55), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Adrianus van Tillo (55), Halsteren
• Anna Helena Gerdes (81), Odoorn
• Adrianus Gerardus Antonius Aerts (1), Alphen en Riel
• Anna Helena Gerdes (Geerts) (81), Odoorn, Nederland
• Anna Helena (Jan Hendrik Heijne, Hermann Heinrich Schulte) Gerdes (81), Vathermond, Groningen, Nederland (Nl)
• Albertus VAN GENNIP (82), St.Oedenrode,North-Brabant,Netherlands

• 1908 » Johnny Burke, American songwriter († 1964)
• 1911 » Michael Hordern, English actor († 1995)
• 1915 » Ray Stark, American film producer († 2004)
• 1916 » James Herriot, English veterinarian and author († 1995)
• 1919 » James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1921 » Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and soldier († 1996)
• 1923 » Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Dominica († 2004)
• 1924 » Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter and coach († 2012)
• 1924 » Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist († 1993)
• 1925 » Gore Vidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic († 2012)

• 1890 » Joseph Hergenröther, German historian and cardinal (b. 1824)
• 1891 » Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842)
• 1896 » William Morris, English author and poet (b. 1834)
• 1907 » Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (b. 1835)
• 1911 » Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1936 » John Heisman, American football player and coach (b. 1869)

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. Geertruida
14. Grietje
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 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
• May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
• May 31 » World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet engages the High Seas Fleet in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
• June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
• July 15 » In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).

The temperature on October 3, 1916 was between 4.1 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.