About the day » Wednesday April 5, 1916Calender converter

• Abraham Querido, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Aleida Margaretha Wehkamp, Nieuw-Schoonebeek († 1916)
• Anna Maria Scheepers, Wittem († 1916)
• Abraham Querido, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1943)
• Anthony Spierenburg, Utrecht († 1982)
• Alwyn Oscar (Ossie) TURNBULL († 2006)
• Arne John Johnson, Park City, Summit County, Utah, United States of America († 2006)
• Edmundus van der Goore, Koewacht († 1983)
• Carroll Allen Read, Ray Center R, Michigan († 2003)
• Annie Peters, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1997)

• Anna Geijtenbeek (19), Amersfoort
• Abraham Jacobus Geense (3), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Femmetje Vleggeert (2), 's Gravenhage
• Aldert (Albert) van Leggelo (51), Groningen
• Adriana Hoogendijk (71), Lange Ruige Weide
• ? van der Bijl (0), Rotterdam
• Adriana Johanna Koppeschaar (1), Leiden
• Aldert van Leggelo (51), Groningen
• Alexander McGregor (50), St George Edinburgh
• Abraham Willemsen (75), Westervoort, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1912 » Habib Elghanian, Iranian businessman († 1979)
• 1912 » Jehan Buhan, French fencer († 1999)
• 1913 » Antoni Clavé, Catalan artist († 2005)
• 1913 » Nicolas Grunitzky, 2nd President of Togo († 1969)
• 1913 » Ruth Smith, Faroese artist († 1958)
• 1914 » Felice Borel, Italian footballer († 1993)
• 1916 » Gregory Peck, American actor, political activist, and producer († 2003)
• 1917 » Frans Gommers, Belgian footballer († 1996)
• 1917 » Robert Bloch, American author († 1994)
• 1919 » Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan director, screenwriter, and producer († 2018)

• 1906 » Eastman Johnson, American painter (b. 1824)
• 1914 » Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (b. 1851)
• 1918 » George Tupou II, King of Tonga (b. 1874)
• 1918 » Paul Vidal de La Blache, French geographer (b. 1845)
• 1920 » Laurent Marqueste, French sculptor (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (b. 1862)
• 1921 » Sophie Elkan, Swedish-Jewish writer and translator (b. 1853)
• 1923 » George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (b. 1866)
• 1924 » Victor Hensen, German zoologist (b. 1835)

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.
• January 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
• February 25 » In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.
• April 8 » In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.
• May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
• 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.
• 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 April 5, 1916 was between 4.1 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.