About the day » Saturday March 25, 1916Calender converter

• Antonia Johanna (Tonny) Wijers, Afferden, Nederland († 1973)
• Albert Jong, Durgerdam († 1973)
• Alberta van der Linden, Bunnik († 1916)
• Abelina Bousema, Enumatil Zuidhorn Westerkwartier Groningen Nederland († 1984)
• Anthonij Johannes JANSEN, Rotterdam († 2011)
• Alexander (Aat) Heijbroek, Hilversum, NH, Nederland († 2000)
• Anna Barbara Maria van Wegen, Eemnes, Utrecht, Nederland († 1994)
• Adriana Liduina van Gogh, Schiedam († 1950)
• Adriana Zoe Sabbe, St. Niklaas, Oost Vlaanderen, Belgie († 1993)
• Anna Maria Victorina Elisabeth GROVEN, Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie († 2003)

• de Weerd (0), Norg
• Adolphe Joseph Detry (76), Saint-Gilles, Bruxelles, Belgique
• Adriana Bossche (72), Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adeline "Aunt Addie" SCHULTZ (74), Pennsylvania (age 74 years
• Anna Maria Catharina van Zuijlen (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Honings (1), Deurne en Liessel
• Andreas Joseph Senden (23), Kerkrade
• Cornelis Van Agtmaal (45), Oudenbosch
• Aaltje Barneveld (69), Almelo, Almelo, Overijssel, The Netherlands
• Adriana Dieleman (54)

• 1912 » Jean Vilar, French actor and director († 1971)
• 1912 » Melita Norwood, English civil servant and spy († 2005)
• 1913 » Reo Stakis, Cypriot-Scottish businessman, founded Stakis Hotels († 2001)
• 1914 » Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1915 » Dorothy Squires, Welsh singer († 1998)
• 1916 » S. M. Pandit, Indian painter and educator († 1993)
• 1918 » Howard Cosell, American soldier, journalist, and author († 1995)
• 1920 » Patrick Troughton, English actor († 1987)
• 1920 » Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright († 1978)
• 1920 » Usha Mehta, Gandhian and freedom fighter of India († 2000)

• 1907 » Ernst von Bergmann, Latvian-German surgeon and academic (b. 1836)
• 1908 » Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
• 1914 » Frédéric Mistral, French lexicographer and poet, 1904 Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American academic (b. 1832)
• 1918 » Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
• 1918 » Peter Martin, Australian footballer and soldier (b. 1875)
• 1927 » Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1843)
• 1931 » Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1890)
• 1931 » Ida B. Wells, American journalist and activist (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter (b.1845)

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 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
• April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
• 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 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.
• November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
• November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

The temperature on March 25, 1916 was between -0.7 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.