About the day » Saturday December 30, 1916Calender converter

• Antonius Petrus Frunt, Gemert,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1917)
• Alida Jacoba Smit, Laren († 2002)
• Aaron Joseph Matalon, Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies († 1998)
• Aloijsius Franciscus Antonius van Ierland, Tilburg († 1997)
• Antje van Wingerden († 1993)
• Anton Hoffer, Hoogkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1982)
• Catharina VENNICKX, Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alphina Margaretha du Chatenier, Den Haag († 1991)
• Anton Ridder, Schoonrewoerd, zuidholland († 1970)
• Adrianus Antonius Mathijsen, Wouw († 2002)

• Amanda M. Schermerhorn (66), unbekannt
• Aleida Grada Rougoor (64), Het Lanker
• Aaltje van der Laan (63), Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Keizer (32), Epe, Gld, The Netherlands
• Adriana Indermauer (78), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Smit (54), Onderdendam ( Bedum )
• Anna Verbruggen (70), Veghel
• Aalt van Meulen (1), Apeldoorn
• Albert Beukema (53), Chicago (Cook), Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• (1) Emelie Melanie Naessens (46), Deerlijk (W-VL) België

• 1910 » Paul Bowles, American composer and author († 1999)
• 1911 » Jeanette Nolan, American actress († 1998)
• 1913 » Elyne Mitchell, Australian author († 2002)
• 1913 » Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer († 1996)
• 1914 » Bert Parks, American actor, singer, television personality, and beauty pageant host († 1992)
• 1917 » Seymour Melman, American engineer and author († 2004)
• 1919 » David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor († 2015)
• 1919 » Dick Spooner, English cricketer († 1997)
• 1921 » Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon († 1987)
• 1922 » Jane Langton, American author and illustrator († 2018)

• 1896 » José Rizal, Filipino ophthalmologist, journalist, and author (b. 1861)
• 1906 » Josephine Butler, English feminist and social reformer (b. 1828)
• 1908 » Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (b. 1869)
• 1928 » Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
• 1940 » Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878)
• 1941 » El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890)
• 1944 » Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)

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. Grietje
14. Geertruida
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 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.
• March 16 » The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
• April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
• June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• August 5 » World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
• September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.

The temperature on December 30, 1916 was between 6.5 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.