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• Albertje Hendriks Broekman, Uffelte, Havelte
• Adriana Dingemanse, Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland († 1959)
• Akke Kornelis Kingma, Birdaard
• Mol, Ellewoutsdijk († 1897)
• Adrianus Petrus Verreijt, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1897)
• Adriaan van GINK, Roosendaal en Nispen
• Alice van der Male, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1979)
• Adriaan van Gink, Roosendaal en Nispen
• Adrianus Cornelius van Beurden, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1975)
• Andries Ponsteen, Nijverdal († 1987)

• Carolina Schegers‏ (66), Oud-Turnhout, België
• Catharina van den Berg (42), Wateringen
• Cornelia de Groot (0), IJsselsteijn
• Catharina van der Berg (40), Wateringen 33
• Anna SCHOORDIJK (1), Veldhuizen
• Catharina van den Berg (42), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aalbertus Ploeg (0), Soest, Nederland
• Chloe Jane Hanks (1), Salem, Utah, Utah, United States
• AALBERTUS PLOEG (0), Soest
• Alida Jozina Zwartendijk (75), Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands

• 1884 » Billie Burke, American actress and singer († 1970)
• 1884 » Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator († 1940)
• 1887 » Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright († 1970)
• 1890 » Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist († 1964)
• 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
• 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
• 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)
• 1911 » István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician († 1979)

• 1848 » Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

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.
• 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.
• May 26 » The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.
• July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
• August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
• September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
• December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

The temperature on August 7, 1897 was about 20.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.