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• Berend Katuin, Amsterdam, Hancock, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1987)
• Bauke Lijklema, Drachten († 1945)
• Alle Poelstra († 2002)
• Berendina Kramer, Ommen († 1916)
• Aloijsius Josephus (Louis) van Luxemborg, Tilburg, Nederland († 1995)
• Albert Bronkema, Leens († 2010)
• Aalt Baatje, Ermelo († 1916)
• Bauke Lijklema, Drachten († 1945)
• Abraham Daniël van Dijke, Oud-Vossemeer († 1996)
• Arie Stolk, Rotterdam Z.H († 2000)

• Aagtje van Ammers (53), Beemster
• Aartje Maat (70), Goudriaan
• Andries Nicolaas Caris (82), Nederweert
• van Kampen (83), Schiedam
• Anne Lieuwes van der Plaats (82), Beetgum
• Albert Roelofs Mooiweer (56), Suameer, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje TRIP (0), Borger
• Annigje Schaap (78), Kuinre
• Anne Maria de Zwaan (64), Warmenhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Mooiweer (56), Suameer, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1910 » Gyula Kállai, Hungarian communist leader, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary († 1996)
• 1912 » Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, author, and mountaineer († 1987)
• 1913 » Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician († 2007)
• 1915 » John Randolph, American actor († 2004)
• 1916 » Jean Jérôme Hamer, Belgian Cardinal († 1996)
• 1917 » William Standish Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)
• 1920 » Robert Clarke, American actor and producer († 2005)
• 1921 » Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader († 1985)
• 1922 » Joan Caulfield, American model and actress († 1991)
• 1922 » Povel Ramel, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist († 2007)

• 1908 » Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (b. 1867)
• 1927 » J. B. Bury, Irish historian, philologist, and scholar (b. 1861)
• 1927 » Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel and polo player (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Romanian-Hungarian general († 1857)
• 1938 » Ödön von Horváth, Croatian-French author and playwright (b. 1901)
• 1941 » Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (b. 1873)
• 1941 » Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-English author (b. 1884)
• 1943 » Leslie Howard, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1943 » Wilfrid Israel, English-German businessman and philanthropist (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.
• June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
• August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
• August 17 » World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side.
• December 23 » World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
• December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

The temperature on June 1, 1916 was between 8.0 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.