About the day » Thursday July 20, 1899Calender converter

• Aaltje Hendriks, Vries, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Kamp, Waspik († 1899)
• Adriana Maria van Noort, ,, Pijnacker, Nederland
• Anna Constantia Cornelia Maria Donders, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Constantia Cornelia Maria Donders, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafje Alberta Westerhuis, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alberic Antonius Hostens, Izegem
• Antonius Veenhof, Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1899)
• Anna Maria Huberta Langen, Remagen, Dld
• Arie Zeeman, Monster, Nederland († 1899)

• Adrianus de Wit (29), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cécile CHEDEMAIL (23), Martigné-Ferchaud, 35640, France
• Anna Scholten (1), IJsselmuiden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Ras (79), delft
• Baron Jacob Adolph van PALLANDT (59), Arnhem, 1163, Gelderland, Nederland
• Child Krotowski (0), Krotoszyn, Wlkp., Poland
• Charlotte de Rothschild (74)
• Arigje de Vries (27), Goudriaan, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Sijka Roos (0), Bodegraven
• Albertus Nieuwveld (0)

• 1890 » Verna Felton, American actress († 1966)
• 1893 » George Llewelyn Davies, English soldier († 1915)
• 1895 » László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor († 1946)
• 1897 » Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1900 » Maurice Leyland, English cricketer and coach († 1967)
• 1901 » Eugenio Lopez Sr., Filipino businessman and founder of the Lopez Group of Companies († 1975)
• 1901 » Heinie Manush, American baseball player and manager († 1971)
• 1901 » Vehbi Koç, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, founded Koç Holding († 1996)
• 1902 » Leonidas Berry, American gastroenterologist († 1995)
• 1905 » Joseph Levis, American foil fencer († 2005)

• 1897 » Jean Ingelow, English poet and author (b. 1820)
• 1901 » William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
• 1903 » Leo XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1810)
• 1908 » Demetrius Vikelas, Greek businessman and author (b. 1835)
• 1908 » Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1881)
• 1910 » Anderson Dawson, Australian politician, 14th Premier of Queensland (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1856)
• 1923 » Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua (b. 1878)
• 1926 » Felix Dzerzhinsky, Russian educator and politician (b. 1877)
• 1927 » Ferdinand I, king of Romania (b. 1865)

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 22 » Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
• March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
• November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
• November 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
• December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.

The temperature on July 20, 1899 was about 23.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%.