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Born on Tuesday October 10, 1916
Died on Tuesday October 10, 1916

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from October 10, 1916 at Delpher


Born on October 10
  • 1913 » Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
  • 1914 » Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1974)
  • 1914 » Tommy Fine, American baseball player and businessman († 2005)
  • 1915 » Harry Edison, American trumpet player and composer († 1999)
  • 1917 » Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer († 1982)
  • 1919 » Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player († 2014)
  • 1919 » Gerry Gomez, Trinidadian cricketer, manager, and umpire († 1996)
  • 1919 » Kim Ki-young, South Korean director, screenwriter, producer, and editor († 1997)
  • 1919 » Willard Estey, Canadian academic and jurist († 2002)
  • 1919 » William Kruskal, American mathematician and statistician († 2005)

Died on October 10

Names that were popular for boys in 1916
  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
Names that were popular for girls in 1916
  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

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1916
  • 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.
  • August 14 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • November 5 » The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
  • November 5 » The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
Weather October 10, 1916

The temperature on October 10, 1916 was between 12.1 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.

Source: KNMI