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• Alida Jacoba Hellemond, Den Haag
• Anna Neeltje Cornelisdr van der Wiel, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Antonius Josefus Hermanus Bloo († 1999)
• Apolonia Wouterina Sterk, Culemborg (GL) († 1987)
• Albertus Jacobus Antonius Maria vermeer († 1976)
• Aaltje Kuijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Arie Stolk, Nieuw-Helvoet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• , NAALDWIJK (Westland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Albert Verstraelen, Roermond († 1991)
• Ava Blanche Creech ****, Columbus, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1983)

• Bertie John Cook (26), Mined at sea off Yarmouth
• "Aymeri" Marie Victor Albéric de Narbonne-Lara (21), Bouchavesnes-Bergen, Somme, France
• Cornelis de Jong (21), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Kessel (69), Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Kuiken (0), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Neeltje Hogervorst- (67), Almelo, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Arnolda Koch (76), Den Haag
• Christianus van Mulken (79)
• Cornelia Neeltje Hogervorst, Ambt Almelo, Nederland
• Antonia Theodora Massop (0), Voorst (Ge), Gelderland, Nederland

• 1912 » W. Allen Wallis, American economist and statistician († 1998)
• 1913 » Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer († 2005)
• 1913 » John McGiver, American actor († 1975)
• 1913 » Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress († 1967)
• 1914 » Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator († 2005)
• 1917 » Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana († 2007)
• 1917 » Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot († 2000)
• 1917 » James Lawton Collins Jr., American brigadier general († 2002)
• 1919 » Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar, and critic († 1978)
• 1919 » Myron Floren, American accordion player and pianist († 2005)

• 1923 » Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1928 » Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general (b. 1872)
• 1930 » Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1930 » Luigi Facta, Italian politician, journalist and Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (b. 1866)
• 1933 » Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1884)
• 1933 » Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1938 » Thomas Dewing, American painter and educator (b. 1851)
• 1939 » Mary W. Bacheler, American physician and Baptist medical missionary (b. 1860)
• 1941 » Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (b. 1905)

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.
• February 29 » Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
• March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
• May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
• September 19 » World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
• 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.
• 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 November 5, 1916 was between 10.2 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south.