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• Adrianus Carolus Bollijn, Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1965)
• Alida Johanna de Kruijf, Maarssen († 1899)
• Adriana Lammers, Den Haag
• Anderis de Boer, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1907)
• Adrianus Carolus Bollijn, Turnhout, 2300, België († 1965)
• Adriana Gerritdina Hietbrink, hengelo (o)
• Alwine Luise Elli Brennecke, Osnabrück
• Adriana Prevo, 's-Gravenhage
• Albert Timmer, Ruinerwold (Drenthe) († 1986)
• Albertje Waarsing, 't haantje († 1900)

• Arjaantje HOOGENDIJK (80), Aarlanderveen (tot 1918) Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika van Wijk (58), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika van Wijk (58), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Annigje van der Weide (0), Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Zwinderen)
• Alida Margaretha Brouwer (46), Zaandam
• Aleida Rotman (79), Lippe, NRW, Duitsland
• Anna Maria van Bergeijk (63), Stratum, Nederland
• Antje Hendriksma (82), Oostdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Hoogendoorn (1), Utrecht
• Arij Niemantsverdriet (82), Orange City, Sioux, Iowa, United States

• 1893 » Dorothy Whipple, English novelist († 1966)
• 1893 » Wallace Fard Muhammad, American religious leader, founded the Nation of Islam (disappeared 1934)
• 1896 » Andrei Zhdanov, Ukrainian-Russian civil servant and politician († 1948)
• 1899 » Max Petitpierre, Swiss jurist and politician, 54th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1994)
• 1900 » Fritz Wiessner, German-American mountaineer († 1988)
• 1900 » Halina Konopacka, Polish discus thrower and poet († 1989)
• 1902 » Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit († 1991)
• 1903 » Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1903 » Orde Wingate, English general († 1944)
• 1906 » Madeleine Carroll, English actress († 1987)

• 1864 » Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian jurist and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada East (b. 1807)
• 1883 » Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek lawyer and politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, First Indian women physician (b. 1865)
• 1889 » Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1903 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1906 » Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)
• 1930 » Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Neeltje
14. Petronella
15. Geertruida
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 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 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
• February 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
• February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
• May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
• May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

The temperature on February 26, 1899 was about -1.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.