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• Adrianus van de Langenberg, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1989)
• van der Windt, Vlaardingen
• Amelia Ferreira Dias, Laranjal Paulista, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Maria (Johann Rudolf Gerdes) Sturre, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2006)
• Arend Jan Adriaan FEITEL, Dinteloord en Prinsenland († 1985)
• Helton, South Carolina, United States († 2003)
• Antonia van Harmelen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1939)
• Anna Herbots, Sint-Truiden, België († 1996)
• Anna Swiatkowski, Bontrop († 1949)
• Abraham Mariek, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1917)

• Anje Snel (9), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Apolonia (loontje) Pateer (70), Hontenisse, Groenendijk
• Catharina Geertruida Been (22), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Put (2), Ridderkerk
• Albert Bonnes (47), Rotterdam
• Anthonia Loffeld (83), Vleuten
• Albert Bonnes (47), Rotterdam Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bertha Maria Bleus (0), Wellen, België
• Anna Marguerite Marie Krol (43), Noordwijk (NL)
• Arend Dekker (2), Groningen, Nederland

• 1915 » Daniel Johnson Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Quebec († 1968)
• 1916 » Bill Leonard, American journalist († 1994)
• 1916 » Heinz Meyer, German Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper) during World War II († 1987)
• 1916 » Julian Dash, American swing music jazz tenor saxophonist († 1974)
• 1917 » Brad Dexter, American actor († 2002)
• 1917 » Henry Hewes, American theater writer († 2006)
• 1917 » Johannes Bobrowski, German songwriter and poet († 1965)
• 1917 » Ronnie Burgess, Welsh international footballer left-half and manager († 2005)
• 1918 » Jørn Utzon, Danish architect, designed the Sydney Opera House († 2008)
• 1919 » J. Presper Eckert, American engineer, invented the ENIAC († 1995)

• 1889 » Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist and academic (b. 1786)
• 1909 » Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Raymond Whittindale, English rugby player (b. 1883)
• 1917 » James Hope Moulton, English philologist and scholar (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Hans Fruhstorfer, German entomologist and explorer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1855)
• 1940 » Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Yevgeniya Rudneva, Ukrainian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1920)
• 1945 » Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian (b. 1906)

• 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.
• July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
• August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
• August 14 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
• September 15 » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
• September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
• 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 9, 1916 was between -3.0 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.