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• Aaltje Bruinsma, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2003)
• Berdella van der Meulen, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 2012)
• Adriana Westerbeke, Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL († 1995)
• Arie Veldhuizen, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1996)
• Albert Maes, Beveren-Waas († 1995)
• "Jacques" Adolphe Marie Chardon du Ranquet, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France († 2002)
• Alida van Slooten, Harlingen († 2011)
• Aaltje Denneboom, Emmen,Gemeente Emmen,Drente († 1996)
• Benjamin Blankenstein, De Bilt († 2006)
• Anna Maria Vandenberk, Lommel († 1918)

• Cornelis Ouwehand (0), Katwijk
• Clara David (56), Hamburg, Germany
• Anna Mary "May" Cantwell (59), South 9th St, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham Johannes Serle (75), IJzendijke (Sluis)
• Adrianus Baas (84), Susteren, Nederland
• Arie Spruit (87), alblasserdam
• Anne Uilkes Bosma (77), Katlijk, Schoterland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Abraham Potter (62), Bellingwolde, Nederland
• Bernard Joseph Diekmann (72), Essen, Cloppenburg, Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Catharina Alida Kooij (66), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1912 » Dale Evans, American singer-songwriter and actress († 2001)
• 1912 » Ollie Johnston, American animator and voice actor († 2008)
• 1914 » John Hugenholtz, Dutch engineer and designer († 1995)
• 1915 » Jane Jarvis, American pianist and composer († 2010)
• 1916 » Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg († 2012)
• 1917 » Gordon Steege, Australian soldier and pilot († 2013)
• 1917 » William H. McNeill, Canadian-American historian and author († 2016)
• 1918 » Ian Stevenson, American psychiatrist and academic († 2007)
• 1919 » Daphne Oxenford, English actress († 2012)
• 1919 » Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician and author († 2017)

• 1905 » Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (b. 1828)
• 1913 » William Evans-Gordon, English soldier and politician (b. 1857)
• 1916 » Charles Taze Russell, American minister (b. 1852)
• 1916 » Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman (b. 1874)
• 1918 » Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
• 1920 » Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian businessman (b. 1854)
• 1925 » Max Linder, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1925 » Mikhail Frunze, Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 (b. 1885)
• 1926 » Harry Houdini, American magician and stuntman (b. 1874)
• 1929 » António José de Almeida, Portuguese physician and politician, 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)

• 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 24 » In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
• February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
• February 25 » In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.
• 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.
• June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.

The temperature on October 31, 1916 was between 6.6 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.