About the day » Thursday September 28, 1916Calender converter

• Adriana Krijgsman, Rotterdam († 2016)
• Anriana Wilhelmina Johann, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Adriaantje Bout, Huizen († 1990)
• Adrianus Wolvers, Uden († 1990)
• Anna J Rellergert, Perry County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Bertus Markus, Haarlemmermeer († 1920)
• Albertus Meijerink, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland († 1936)
• Anna Christina Verton, Haamstede († 2012)
• Anna Cornelia (Cor) Bakx, Steenbergen(Welberg) († 1975)
• Albert Van Twembeke, Everbeek († 1940)

• Carolina Bout (29), Djokjakarta
• Barten Calvin Pope Latner (59), Hale County, Alabama, Verenigde Staten
• Carel Emanuel Sifford Grüning (36), Curacao (NA)
• Berendina Woestenenk (0), Warnsveld
• Adrianus Cornelis van der Steen (27), Boxtel
• Arnold Joseph Valvekens (83)
• Anna Petronella Meijer (55), amsterdam, Nederland
• Aaltje Lubberts Arkema (87), Oosternieland, Uithuizermeeden
• Anna Clasina LEIJER (56), Den Helder
• Anna Margarietha van der Merwe (70)

• 1913 » Alice Marble, American tennis player († 1990)
• 1913 » Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator († 2007)
• 1914 » Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American refugee and singer († 2014)
• 1915 » Ethel Rosenberg, American spy († 1953)
• 1916 » Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator († 2008)
• 1916 » Peter Finch, English-Australian actor († 1977)
• 1917 » Wee Chong Jin, Singaporean judge († 2005)
• 1918 » Ángel Labruna, Argentinian footballer and manager († 1983)
• 1918 » Arnold Stang, American actor († 2009)
• 1919 » Doris Singleton, American actress († 2012)

• 1891 » Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)
• 1899 » Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (b. 1858)
• 1914 » Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863)
• 1915 » Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
• 1918 » Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896)
• 1918 » Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1925 » Paul Vermoyal, French actor (b. 1888)
• 1935 » William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (b. 1861)

• 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 9 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
• January 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
• February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
• 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.
• April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
• June 4 » World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.

The temperature on September 28, 1916 was between 9.0 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.