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• Aartje van Zijl, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• Alida Hendrika Outmaijjer, Amsterdam Planciusstraat 47 († 1924)
• Albertje van Zwol, Terwispel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adam Lambertus Damen, Hoogeloon,Hapert en Casteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Johannes Lipmann, Velsen († 1985)
• Aernout van Lennep (Jonkheer), Haarlem
• Albertje van Zwol, Terwispel († 1979)
• Adriana Lijntje Giljamse, Ouwerkerk, Schouwen Duiveland, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adriana Anderson, Utrecht, Utr, NL († 1986)
• Adrianus VANZANTEN, Schipluiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands († 1969)

• Adriana Vossenberg (57), Beek en Donk, Nederland
• Cornelia KUIJPER (S) (98), Scherpenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Amsterdam (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Antonia Maria van Berkel (0), Tilburg
• Cornelia Kuijpers (98), Scherpenisse (Zld)
• Adriana Suzanna Lina de Ruijter (0), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Antonia van Breugel (23), Princenhage
• dirk tool (65), amsterdam
• Anna Christina Packbier (42), Klimmen
• Cornelia Kuijper (99), Scherpenisse

• 1888 » Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot († 1918)
• 1892 » Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire († 1989)
• 1893 » William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author († 1947)
• 1895 » Frank Foss, American pole vaulter († 1989)
• 1895 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher († 1961)
• 1895 » Richard Barthelmess, American actor († 1963)
• 1896 » Richard Day, Canadian-American art director and set decorator († 1972)
• 1900 » Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress († 1992)
• 1904 » Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator († 1988)
• 1905 » Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist († 1998)

• 1861 » Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)
• 1864 » John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)
• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)

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.
• February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
• April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
• August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
• September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
• September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
• November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.

The temperature on May 9, 1897 was about 10.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.