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• Anna van Asch, Ravenswaaij (Maurik) (GL) († 1994)
• Andreas Schelfhout, Hilversum († 1999)
• Andreas Schelfhout, Hilversum († 1999)
• André Debruyne, Le Treport,France († 1988)
• Antje Zijlstra, Munnekezijl, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Alberdina Nijman, De Krim († 1988)
• Anthonie Jan Johannes Holthuijzen, Middelburg, Netherlands († 2005)
• Anthonie Hendrikus van Driel, Geldermalsen († 1969)
• Adrianus van Diepen, Zuid-Scharwoude, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• Anny A. Taconis († 2006)

• Anna Marie Harmsen (57), Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Albert Jean Cleys (38), Valenciennes, Noorderdepartement,, Friesland, Nederland
• Aartje Lokhorst (26), Apeldoorn
• Andries Hamelink (30), Terneuzen
• "Leopold Clement" Philipp August Maria von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld-Koháry (37), Wien, Autriche
• Anna Maria Harmsen (57), Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Rijn (78), Katwijk
• Alida de Lange (1), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Albertje Roosjen (0), Borger
• Aaltje Drent (74), Steenwijk

• 1912 » Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician († 2001)
• 1912 » Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer († 2014)
• 1913 » Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic († 2012)
• 1913 » Luz Long, German long jumper and soldier († 1943)
• 1913 » Philip Abelson, American physicist and author († 2004)
• 1916 » Enos Slaughter, American baseball player and manager († 2002)
• 1916 » Robert Hugh McWilliams, Jr., American sergeant, lawyer, and judge († 2013)
• 1917 » Roman Matsov, Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor († 2001)
• 1918 » Sten Rudholm, Swedish lawyer and jurist († 2008)
• 1920 » Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor († 1956)

• 1882 » Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (b. 1803)
• 1893 » John Ballance, Irish-born New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1839)
• 1896 » Henry Parkes, English-Australian businessman and politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815)
• 1915 » Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1872)
• 1915 » John Labatt, Canadian businessman (b. 1838)
• 1932 » Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
• 1936 » Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)
• 1937 » Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859)
• 1952 » Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and statistician (b. 1865)

• 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.
• March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
• 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.
• May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
• September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
• September 7 » US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
• November 30 » Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.

The temperature on April 27, 1916 was between 10.2 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.