About the day » Thursday May 16, 1935Calender converter

• Albert Boon, Onstwedde († 1981)
• Anita Regina Siteur, Brummen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2014)
• Dirkje van Iwaarden, Stavenisse († 1948)
• Anny Julia Maria Braet, Maldegem († 2016)
• Cecilia Prins, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1942)
• Cornelis Theodorus Breuer, Tjimahis (Ned.Ind.) († 1993)
• adrianus bernadus johannes zwekars, tilburg
• Catharina Ida Maria van den Heuvel, Berghem († 2014)
• Berndina Catharina Maria de Cocq van Delwijnen, Maasdriel († 1935)
• Berend Jan Lugies, Ambt Hardenberg († 2009)

• Bernard Anton Soddemann genaamd Keute (3), Abcoude Baambrugge
• Catharina Lucia Maria de Cock (79), Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant)
• Catharina Schouten (75), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Petersen (72), Nieuw-Buinen (NL)
• Charles JACKLYN (70)
• Catharina Margaretha van Nas (92), Weesp
• Annigje Eikenaar (76), Kampen
• (73), Veenendaal, Nederland
• Adriaan Verschoore De la Houssaije (70), Vlissingen,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Clasina Jacoba Groenewegen (77), Stompwijk

• 1931 » Hana Brady, Jewish-Czech Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1931 » Vujadin Boškov, Serbian footballer, coach, and manager († 2014)
• 1934 » Antony Walker, English general
• 1934 » Kenneth O. Morgan, Welsh historian and author
• 1935 » Floyd Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1936 » Karl Lehmann, German cardinal († 2018)
• 1937 » Yvonne Craig, American ballet dancer and actress († 2015)
• 1938 » Ivan Sutherland, American computer scientist and academic
• 1938 » Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian television host and sexologist († 2018)
• 1938 » Stuart Bell, English lawyer and politician († 2012)

• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1865)
• 1944 » George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1946 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
• 1953 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)

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

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

• 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
• January 13 » A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
• April 23 » The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
• May 14 » The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.
• August 15 » Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
• September 2 » The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.
• December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.

The temperature on May 16, 1935 was between 0.4 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.