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• Anna Maria (Letje) Krans, Apeldoorn, Nederland († 1963)
• Antoinette Wilhelmina van der Leeuwen, Woudsend, Friesland, Nederland († 2007)
• Anthonie Spaanderman, Katwijk († 2000)
• Antonius Henricus Wilhelmus Kemps, Oss,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1980)
• Antonia Johanna van Reen, Nijmegen († 2000)
• A.J(Albert) Wolbert, Lemselo (Weerselo) († 1990)
• Alberta Priscilla Swain, Laupahoehoe, Hawaii, Hawaii, Verenigde Staten († 1964)
• Abraham Halberstadt, Amsterdam (NL) († 1945)
• (l.l.) Jansen den Boer, Rotterdam († 1916)
• Amke Frederika Berghuis, Groningen, Netherlands († 1996)

• Anna (Johanna) Spandonk (85), Hooge Zwaluwe, Nederland
• Aletta Meijers (45), Zeist, Nederland
• Adrianus van Dijk (65), Helmond
• Albert Drenth (47)
• Alida Bos (63), Arnhem
• Aaltje de Boer (72), Amsterdam
• (l.l.) Jansen den Boer (0), Rotterdam
• aart BARENDREGT (89), strijen
• Albrecht Eugeen Nys (0), Dessel (België)
• Alphonsus Jacobus Theodorus Cools (0), Zierikzee

• 1911 » Andor Lilienthal, Russian-Hungarian chess player († 2010)
• 1911 » Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1911 » Pritilata Waddedar, Indian educator and activist († 1932)
• 1913 » Duane Carter, American race car driver († 1993)
• 1914 » Tyrone Power, American actor († 1958)
• 1915 » Alice Faye, American actress and singer († 1998)
• 1916 » Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India († 1994)
• 1917 » Pío Leyva, Cuban singer-songwriter († 2006)
• 1918 » Egidio Galea, Maltese Roman Catholic priest († 2005)
• 1919 » Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece († 1999)

• 1892 » August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
• 1896 » Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
• 1902 » Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (b. 1836)
• 1907 » Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (b. 1841)
• 1913 » Henry Moret, French painter (b. 1856)
• 1916 » John MacBride, Irish soldier and rebel (b. 1865)
• 1916 » Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (b. 1866)
• 1921 » Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1924 » A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899)

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 29 » Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
• April 25 » Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
• August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
• August 5 » World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
• September 11 » The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.
• 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 May 5, 1916 was between 11.3 °C and 29.3 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.