About the day » Friday August 16, 1935Calender converter

• Grada Maria Johanna Ahuis, Losser († 2020)
• Arie Honkoop, Voorburg († 1935)
• Adalgisa Vieira do Couto, Itaberá, São Paulo, Brasil († 2021)
• Dell Magdalene Ebanks, West Bay, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands († 2023)
• Gerrit Scheffer, Renkum,Gemeente Renkum,Gelderland,Nederland († 2017)
• Ferdinandus Johannes Maria Stroeve, Harderwijk († 1964)
• Abraham Geuns, van, Amsterdam Nhl. NL († 1954)
• Arie HONKOOP, Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1935)
• Donald E. Prothero († 1996)
• Arie Schaap, Scheveningen, Zuid Holland, Netherlands († 1993)

• Adrianus van Rulo (54), Haaren
• Clotilde Marie Allefs (53)
• Ate Franzes Hoekstra (84), Tietjerksteradeel
• Ate Franzes Hoekstra (84), Noordbergum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Bernardus Harmanus Lebbink, Vorden
• Cornelia Duindam (73), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ann Minerva Hurst (76)
• Cornelis Overeem (82), Achttienhoven
• Antonius Ax (44), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Chillian Higgs Davis (86), Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten

• 1934 » Dave Thomas, English-Welsh golfer and architect († 2013)
• 1934 » Diana Wynne Jones, English author († 2011)
• 1934 » Donnie Dunagan, American actor and soldier
• 1934 » John Standing, English actor
• 1934 » Ketty Lester, American singer and actress
• 1934 » Pierre Richard, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1934 » Sam Trimble, Australian cricketer
• 1935 » Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek footballer and coach
• 1935 » Cliff Fletcher, Canadian businessman
• 1936 » Anita Gillette, American actress and singer

• 1914 » Carl Theodor Schulz, German-Norwegian gardener (b. 1835)
• 1916 » George Scott, English footballer (b. 1885)
• 1920 » Henry Daglish, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1866)
• 1921 » Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
• 1938 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)

• 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.
• February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
• April 1 » India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
• August 14 » Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
• October 19 » The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
• December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
• December 30 » The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

The temperature on August 16, 1935 was between 9.1 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.