About the day » Wednesday October 13, 1897Calender converter

• Aaltje Stoller, Hilversum, NH, Nederland († 1943)
• Albert Hendrik van Noort, Hengelo
• Alida Lise KUIJT, Westzaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1981)
• Adriana Rosetta Geerling, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Schippers, Neerdorp, Holten, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Aaltje Stoller, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Adriana Rosetta GEERLING, Dordrecht
• Adriana Maria Leenders, Rotterdam
• Adriana Catharina van Tricht, Utrecht († 1915)
• Albert Lautenbach, Boornbergum, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1950)

• Anneke Pruiijssen (53), Almkerk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland (en Emmikhoven)
• Adriaan Bolleman (76), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• AREND VAN LOENEN (68), DE LIER
• Anna Jacoba van Osch (29), Maasbommel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Gerardus Meijzenaar (0), Odijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Alida Smits (69), Schiedam
• van der Spek, Delft
• Anneke Pruijsen (53), Almkerk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia de Keijzer (0), Halsteren
• Antonia (Aaltje) Smits (65), Schiedam

• 1890 » Conrad Richter, American journalist and novelist († 1968)
• 1891 » Irene Rich, American actress († 1988)
• 1893 » Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle († 1971)
• 1895 » Mike Gazella, American baseball player and manager († 1978)
• 1899 » Piero Dusio, Italian footballer, businessman and race car driver († 1975)
• 1900 » Gerald Marks, American composer († 1997)
• 1902 » Arna Bontemps, American librarian, author, and poet († 1973)
• 1902 » Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic († 1987)
• 1904 » Wilfred Pickles, English actor and radio host († 1978)
• 1905 » Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter († 1987)

• 1869 » Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French poet, author, and critic (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher and author (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Samuel Freeman Miller, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1816)
• 1904 » Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (b. 1870)
• 1905 » Henry Irving, English actor and manager (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1849)
• 1911 » Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian social worker, author, and educator (b. 1867)
• 1917 » Florence La Badie, American actress (b. 1888)
• 1919 » Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (b. 1865)

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

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
• February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
• April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
• June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
• August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
• December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.

The temperature on October 13, 1897 was about 8.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.