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• Antje Okkens, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 2000)
• Albertus van Veldhuizen, Barneveld († 1968)
• Adrian Louis Mallia, Texas († 1997)
• Barbara Pijpstra, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 1998)
• Barbara Pijpstra, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1998)
• Antonia van Velzen, Warmond († 1996)
• Antje Bons, Sliedrecht († 2002)
• Adriana Maria Theodora Diepstraten, Gilze-Rijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1917)
• Adrianus Franciscus Tiggeler, Amsterdam († 2008)
• Anna Maria van den Bersselaar, Woensel († 1917)

• Cornelia Catharina Mosch (1), Warmenhuizen
• Bernardus Johannes Greutink (18), Lochem
• Bernardus Johannes Greutink (18), Lochem
• Charles Hedigan (79), Cork, Ireland
• Carolina Aldegondis DE GREEVE (52), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Aafke Pieters Drost (34), Doezum, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Katerberg (85), Avereest
• Barendina Geertruida van der Boogaard (80), Maassluis, Nederland
• Ada Emma Caroline de Sturler de Frienisberg (73), Apeldoorn,Gemeente Apeldoorn,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Charlotte Elizabeth Scrooby (59), Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa

• 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 » Andy Russell, American singer and actor († 1992)
• 1919 » Bill Daley, American football player and sportscaster († 2015)
• 1919 » Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American hierarchiologist and educator († 1990)

• 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)
• 1936 » Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (b. 1867)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Albert
13. Gerardus
14. Dirk
15. Wilhelmus
16. Antonius

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Trijntje

• 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 6.5 million citizens.
• April 2 » World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
• May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
• June 11 » King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
• July 20 » World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
• August 18 » A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
• November 26 » The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.

The temperature on September 16, 1917 was between 7.8 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.