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• Antje Benedictus, Rottevalle, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Arend Carolus Cornelis Johan Paternotte, 's Gravenhage († 1969)
• Becker († 1916)
• Antje Lipkjen Holtrop, Doniawerstal (Broek) († 1962)
• Alfonsus Johannes Christiaan RIPKEN, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Aaltje Busscher, Donderen ( Vries ) († 2008)
• Antje Lipkjen Holtrop († 1962)
• Anna Elisabeth Quaedvlieg, Brunssum († 2009)
• Adrianus Jacobus Schouten, Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1920)
• Anna Hooijmans, Velddriel, Driel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1996)

• Christina Clazina Johanna Cornelia Oosthoek (40), Rotterdam
• Antonius Lips, Klundert, Nederland
• Christiaan Gerrits (0), Giethmen
• Aaltje Hijlkema (65), Stitswerd, Kantens,, Groningen, Nederland
• Abe Jelles van der Hoek (85), Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Benthem (0), Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Christina Clasina Johanna Cornelia Oostvhoek (40), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ann Hays (70)
• Charles Hugh Breslin (32), Jackson County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Abe Jelles van der Hoek (85), Joure, gem. Haskerland

• 1913 » Red Skelton, American actor and comedian († 1997)
• 1914 » Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist († 2000)
• 1914 » Oscar Heisserer, French footballer († 2004)
• 1915 » Carequinha, Brazilian clown and actor († 2006)
• 1915 » Louis Le Bailly, British Royal Navy officer († 2010)
• 1915 » Roxana Cannon Arsht, American judge († 2003)
• 1916 » Charles Kittel, American physicist († 2019)
• 1917 » Henri Salvador, French singer and guitarist († 2008)
• 1917 » Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor († 2019)
• 1918 » Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)

• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)
• 1890 » Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
• 1892 » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
• 1899 » Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1916 » Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)
• 1937 » Julian Bell, English poet and academic (b. 1908)
• 1938 » Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
• 1944 » Thomas Sturge Moore, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1870)

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 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.
• July 19 » World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
• August 16 » The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
• 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.
• September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
• 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 July 18, 1916 was between 8.2 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.