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• Arno Gerardus Maria Dieteren († 1994)
• Alfred Ihrig, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1945)
• Cornelius Johannes Maria Janssen, Nijmegen, Nederland († 1996)
• Anna Jans Huisman, Westergeest († 2016)
• Doris E Petersen († 1998)
• Adriana van Gestel, Hoogemierde († 2009)
• Dale Aber ROORDA, Oskaloosa Mahaska County Iowa U.S.A († 2007)
• Dood Geboren Kind van Lokven, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria van Kwakkel, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1996)
• Cornelis van Lier, Huis A95, Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1926)

• Antoinetta van Vliet (82), Harderwijk
• Alida Catharina Peereboom (71), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Brokers (26), Rosmalen
• Anna Maria van Grunsven (71), Groesbeek
• Anna Cornelia Moors (78), Roosendaal
• Albertje Kloppenburg (60), Tweede Exloermond
• Aaltje van der Vlist (79), Boskoop
• Anna Gertrudis Schreurs (58), Neer
• Annetje Bakker (77), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Klaren (88), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1922 » Cy Leslie, American record producer, founded Pickwick Records († 2008)
• 1923 » Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist († 2014)
• 1923 » Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist
• 1924 » Nicolas Sidjakov, Latvian-American illustrator († 1993)
• 1926 » A. N. R. Robinson, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago († 2014)
• 1926 » James McCracken, American tenor and actor († 1988)
• 1926 » Jeffrey Stone, American actor and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1927 » Peter Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet († 2015)
• 1927 » Randall Garrett, American author and poet († 1987)
• 1928 » Terry Carter, American actor, director, and producer

• 1908 » American Horse, American tribal leader and educator (b. 1840)
• 1917 » Frank Gotch, American wrestler (b. 1878)
• 1921 » Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1835)
• 1922 » Gabriel Narutowicz, Lithuanian–Polish engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1865)
• 1928 » Elinor Wylie, American poet and author (b. 1885)
• 1935 » Thelma Todd, American actress and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1936 » Frank Eugene, American-German photographer and educator (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist (b. 1858)
• 1943 » George Bambridge, English diplomat (b. 1892)

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

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

• 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
• January 30 » The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.
• February 21 » The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
• April 26 » Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
• July 25 » Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
• September 3 » USSShenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
• November 5 » Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

The temperature on December 16, 1925 was between -8.8 °C and 0.6 °C and averaged -3.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.