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• Adriana Maria van Vugt, Loon op Zand († 2006)
• Adriana Bool, Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1916)
• Allice T Nelson, Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 1995)
• Anna Margaretha Roelfes, Sellingerbeetse gem. Vlagtwedde († 2001)
• Anna Carolyn SMITH, Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1980)
• Adrianus Johannes de Craen, Ginneken en Bavel, Gemeente Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Bertus Tannemaat, Wisch († 1996)
• Berendina Oosterloo, Delft († 1946)
• Blanche Knapp, Biberach aan de Riss, Baden-Württemberg († 1943)
• Berendina Oosterloo, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1946)

• "kind van mannelijk" Kroon (0), Velsen
• Antonius Marinus Gerhardus Kuitenbrouwer (0), Oldenzaal
• Aafje Groenland (1892)
• Catharina NOteboom (61), Schiebroek(Ovs)
• Charles Walter Moore (35), Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States of America
• ( Cornelia ) Jacoba van Waveren (80), Vledder Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert van de Van De Beek (50), Oldebroek
• Adriana Kruijs Voorberge (80), Kloetinge
• Antonia Freriks (23), Middel (Olst)
• Bastiaantje Everhard (6), Schiedam

• 1909 » Wilbur Mills, American banker and politician († 1992)
• 1910 » Jimmy Demaret, American golfer († 1983)
• 1913 » Joe Abreu, American baseball player and soldier († 1993)
• 1914 » Lilli Palmer, German-American actress († 1986)
• 1916 » Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales († 2002)
• 1917 » Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge († 2013)
• 1918 » Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit († 1997)
• 1923 » Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress († 1986)
• 1924 » Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter
• 1925 » Carmine Infantino, American illustrator and educator († 2013)

• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• October 27 » Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
• 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 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.

The temperature on May 24, 1916 was between 4.6 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.