About the day » Saturday September 16, 1916Calender converter

• Catharina Wilhelmina Gabreels, Standdaarbuiten, Nederland († 1937)
• Albert Kuipers, Zweeloo, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1983)
• (Frank) Francis William Cotton, Streaky Bay, South Australia, Australia († 1943)
• Bastiaan Verveer, Heerjansdam († 1991)
• Petrus Franciscus Baert, Axel († 1997)
• August Albert Joseph Jamaerts, Wellen, België († 1966)
• Bernard Hendrik Ben Minoli, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands († 1998)
• Christina Reinders, Brummen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1986)
• Anthonius Adrianus Laros, Roosendaal, Nispen, NB, Nederland († 1980)
• Clara Haagens Boekbinder, Rotterdam († 1944)

• Alle Broersma (0), Groningen, Nederland
• Annie Josephine Wilson (63), Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States
• Andries Pieter Machiel (36)
• Anthonia Verweij (59), Benschop
• N.N. Broeksteeg, Geffen
• Gepkediena Margiena de Jonge (0), Oranjedorp Emmen
• Adrianus Beck (62), 's-Gravenhage
• Alle Broersma (0), Opende, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Basil Wilson Duke (78), Manhattan, New York, NY
• Anna Schouten (45), Westerweg Alkmaar

• 1914 » Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1999)
• 1915 » Cy Walter, American pianist († 1968)
• 1916 » Frank Farrell, Australian rugby league player and policeman († 1985)
• 1916 » Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian cricketer, umpire, and politician († 1999)
• 1916 » M. S. Subbulakshmi, an Indian Carnatic vocalist († 2004)
• 1916 » Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer († 1973)
• 1916 » Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis († 1978)
• 1918 » Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist († 1968)
• 1919 » Bill Daley, American football player and sportscaster († 2015)
• 1919 » Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American hierarchiologist and educator († 1990)

• 1896 » Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836)
• 1898 » Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (b. 1827)
• 1911 » Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840)
• 1914 » C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1925 » Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873)
• 1931 » Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)
• 1932 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1933 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager (b. 1857)

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. Grietje
14. Geertruida
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 » Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
• June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
• September 8 » In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
• 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.
• September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
• 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 September 16, 1916 was between 9.0 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.