About the day » Thursday December 21, 1899Calender converter

• Blom, 's-Gravenhage
• Adrianus Cornelius Holtkamp, Schipluiden (Z-H) († 1951)
• Adrianus Johannes Jozef de Laat, Eijsden († 1977)
• Aafje(Aaf) Dekker, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Arnoldus Bertens, Udenhout
• Adrianus Jonkers, Schijndel († 1971)
• Adrianus Jonkers, Schijndel, NL
• Adrianus Cornelis Holtkamp, Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje DUBBELDAM, Gorinchem
• Adrianus Hessels, Esch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Andreas Hubertus van Berlo (65), Boekel (Noord-Brabant)
• Adrianus Petrus van Kaam (0), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Neeskens (0), Heemstede nederland
• Abraham Theodore Calkoen (59), Utrecht
• Anna Moore, Pennsylvania
• Aart Pietersz Veerman (55), Naarden
• Anna Catharina Schepkens (80), Paal, Limburg, België
• Abraham Theodoor CALKOEN (59), Utrecht Utrecht Netherlands
• Aaltje Lammers (4), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonie Adriaansen (73), Ginneken

• 1889 » Sewall Wright, American geneticist and biologist († 1988)
• 1890 » Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1891 » John William McCormack, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1980)
• 1892 » Rebecca West, English journalist and author († 1983)
• 1892 » Walter Hagen, American golfer († 1969)
• 1896 » Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II († 1968)
• 1900 » Luis Arturo González López, Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president († 1965)
• 1905 » Anthony Powell, English author († 2000)
• 1905 » Käte Fenchel, German mathematician († 1983)
• 1909 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese journalist and author († 1992)

• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)

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. Catharina
8. Hendrika
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.
• January 19 » Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
• February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
• May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
• November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

The temperature on December 21, 1899 was about -9.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.