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• Aaltje Jippes Faber, St Jacobiparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland († 1900)
• Adriana Francisca Deliën, Tilburg
• Adriana Francisca Deliën, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1981)
• Anna Maria Catharina Lucker, Tegelen († 1899)
• Adriana Schouwenburg, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Diewertje van der Does, Velsen
• Anna Maria Isabella Pluijmeckers, Meerssen (Meerssen) (Limburg)
• Annetta Knubben, Maastricht († 1957)
• Adriana Petronella Ludovica van Loon, Weelde (België) († 1993)
• Stienen, Bree, België

• Aaltje Haasnoot (0), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Christina Schouten (0), Middelburg
• Magendans (0), Arnhem
• Aaltje Bont (35), Purmerend
• Aaltje Warners (28), Barger-Oosterveen, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aletta Maria Gijsbertha Batenburg (0), IJsselstein
• Aaltje Warners (28), Barger-Oosterveen (gem. Emmen)
• Antonius Harmanus Wiegerinck (79), Arnhem
• Adrianus Casper van der Poel (0), Oegstgeest, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Angela Wessels (76), Krüssel, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany

• 1893 » Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer († 1952)
• 1896 » Barbara La Marr, American actress and screenwriter († 1926)
• 1898 » Lawrence Gray, American actor († 1970)
• 1901 » Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1979)
• 1901 » Rudy Vallée, American actor, singer, and saxophonist († 1986)
• 1902 » Albert Namatjira, Australian painter († 1959)
• 1902 » Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1994)
• 1907 » Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded Tupperware Brands († 1983)
• 1909 » Aenne Burda, German publisher († 2005)
• 1909 » Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet († 1957)

• 1869 » Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
• 1878 » George Law Curry, American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
• 1885 » Moses Montefiore, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (b. 1784)
• 1895 » Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (b. 1803)
• 1930 » Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1930 » John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (b. 1881)
• 1933 » Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th yokozuna (b. 1890)
• 1934 » Louis Tancred, South African cricketer and pilot (b. 1876)
• 1934 » Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1868)
• 1935 » Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871)

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 23 » The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President.
• 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.
• November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
• November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
• 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 28, 1899 was about 19.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.