About the day » Sunday November 19, 1916Calender converter

• Albert Schepers, Vroenhoven, België († 1983)
• Albin Mauritz Peterson Jr, Los Angeles, California (Monroe Street House) († 1975)
• Aaltje Tuin († 2002)
• Aim√© Ren√© van Hutten, Balikpapan,Oost-Kalimantan,Indonesi√´ († 1992)
• Albertine VAN DE VELDE, Yewens,,Verenigd Koninkrijk († 2003)
• Aimé René van Hutten, Balikpapan († 2010)
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• Aaltje Dijkerman, Gorssel († 1995)
• Albert (Johannes) Tabak († 1996)
• Anna van Oers, Den Dungen († 1998)

• Albert Roelofs van Nijen (54), Nieuwehorne
• Aaron (Aron) Kalfon (46), Tunis, Tunisie
• Alexandre Martin FALLAS (66), Muizen, Provincie Limburg, Vlaanderen, Belgie
• Anne Rebecca (Elizabetn) Seward (75), Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States
• Anje Hoeksema (33), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Vierboom (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred Henry Spong (24), in the war-buried in Fulham Palace Road Cemetey
• Anna Cornelia Basten (69), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje van der Vegte (66), Heino, Raalte, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antje Voortman (10), Smilde

• 1912 » Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop († 2015)
• 1912 » George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
• 1912 » Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author († 2014)
• 1915 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1917 » Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India († 1984)
• 1919 » Alan Young, English-Canadian actor, singer, and director († 2016)
• 1919 » Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1919 » Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist († 2010)
• 1920 » Gene Tierney, American actress and singer († 1991)
• 1921 » Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach († 1993)

• 1897 » William Seymour Tyler, American historian and academic (b. 1810)
• 1910 » Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (b. 1835)
• 1915 » Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist (b. 1879)
• 1918 » Joseph F. Smith, American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
• 1924 » Thomas H. Ince, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1882)
• 1928 » Jeanne Bérangère, French actress (b. 1864)
• 1931 » Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet and translator (b. 1897)
• 1938 » Lev Shestov, Ukrainian-Russian philosopher and theologian (b. 1866)
• 1942 » Bruno Schulz, Polish painter and critic (b. 1892)
• 1943 » Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (b. 1895)

• 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 24 » The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
• 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 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
• June 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
• July 22 » Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
• November 13 » World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.

The average temperature on November 19, 1916 was 2.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.