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• ALEXIS ADOLPHUS FRANCISCUS DE KEERSMAEKER, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Schipper, Beverwijk (NH, NLD) († 1899)
• Aaltien Withaar, Veenoord, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Adriana Maria Janssen, Dordrecht († 1977)
• Anna Maria Colleij, Schaesberg, Limburg, Nederland
• Aalbert van de WEERTHOF, Ede
• Albert Martens van der Hem, Rauwerd, Rauwerderhem, Friesland, Nederland († 1953)
• Aaldrik Haaijer, Hoogezand, Kropswolde
• Abraham Santee Thedinga, Assen, Nederland († 1906)
• Anna LEYWOOD HANSEN, Spanish Fork, Utah, United States († 1984)

• Andrew McDonald Wethington (69), Casey, Kentucky, United States
• Adrianus Schriel (45), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Hollnd, Nederland
• Adriana Dekker (74), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Schipper (0), Beverwijk (NH, NLD)
• Adrianus van den BURG (7), 's Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonij Schotman (76), Voorst
• Albert Kouwenhoven (60), Enkhuizen
• Anthonij Schotman (77), Terwolde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Nieboer (11), Doesburg
• Adrianus van den Burg (7), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1893 » Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist († 1970)
• 1896 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator († 1981)
• 1897 » Edith Head, American costume designer († 1981)
• 1897 » Hans Speidel, German general († 1984)
• 1901 » Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet († 1979)
• 1902 » Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer († 1986)
• 1903 » Evelyn Waugh, English journalist, author, and critic († 1966)
• 1903 » John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic († 1995)
• 1904 » George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author († 1986)
• 1905 » Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician († 1984)

• 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
• 1918 » Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)

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 19 » Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
• February 4 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
• March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
• March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
• May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
• December 2 » Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.

The temperature on October 28, 1899 was about 15.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.