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• Andries van Meeteren, Amersfoort
• Andries van Meeteren, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Antonetta Gouw de, Heusden
• Aaltje (Alie) Faber, St Jacobiparochie († 1983)
• Jantje Van Der Meer, Hollandscheveld
• Albertine Falkenberg, Klatten, Soerakarta, Ned. Indie
• - van der Helm, Boijl (Weststellingwerf) († 1900)
• ? Timmers († 1974)
• Aaltje Faber, St. Jacobiparochie, Friesland, Nederland († 1983)
• Anna Eduards Hollander, Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland

• Alida Elizabeth van Heeringen (8), Nieuwkoop
• Antonius Everaert (80), Denderhoutem
• Antonius Petrus Hest van (0)
• - van der Helm (0), Boijl (Weststellingwerf)
• Antonius van de KERKHOF (56), Venlo, 3185, Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Kracht (57), Blijham
• Arnold Albert van Wulfften Palthe (84), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arnold Albert Willem van Wulfften Palthe (84), Almelo,Gemeente Almelo,Overijssel,Netherlands
• Adrianus van Dalen (van Daalen) (92), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Arnold Albert Willem van Wulfften Palthe (84), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1895 » Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer († 1966)
• 1895 » Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy († 1944)
• 1896 » Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I († 1964)
• 1900 » August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright († 1987)
• 1903 » Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician († 1993)
• 1903 » Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general († 1946)
• 1903 » John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff-Berry computer († 1995)
• 1903 » Pierre Garbay, French general († 1980)
• 1906 » Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician († 1996)
• 1907 » Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic († 1994)

• 1864 » Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
• 1867 » Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1871 » Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
• 1890 » Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1903 » Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
• 1904 » Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
• 1904 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1910 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Grietje
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Petronella
14. Neeltje
15. Aaltje
16. Trijntje

• 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.
• February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
• February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
• February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
• March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
• March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.

The temperature on October 4, 1900 was about 14.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%.