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• Adrianus Paulus Termeulen, Hengelo
• ALIDA MARIA WASSENAAR, LISSE, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1913)
• Anna Geertruida Pool, Rotterdam
• Bakker, Weststellingwerf
• Alverina Fernandes da Rosa, Dom Feliciano, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Anna Forster, Isen, Erding, Bayern, Germany († 1992)
• Alice STANDAERT, Eede (Nl),Zeeland,NEDERLAND († 1989)
• Anna Gesina Schmitz, Oberlangen, Lathen
• Ame Van Ham, Usquert,, Groningen, Nederland
• Agnes Maria Hubertina Hens, Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland († 1988)

• Catharina Johanna Margaretha Fransen (0), Enschede, 7500, Nederland
• Antje (Anna) Reinders Brunia (49), Lake Prairie Twp, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Scherling (63), Nijmegen
• Annechien Fokkes Hamminga (74), Kolham
• Adriana van Bavel (75), Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Helena Maria Anna Kruijk (32), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Peeters (70), Brecht
• Antonia Maria Pelkmans (13), Alphen en Riel
• Aafje Kruimer (26), Huizen
• Berber Catharina Eldering (0), Leeuwarden

• 1896 » Ernst Udet, German colonel and pilot († 1941)
• 1896 » Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director († 1967)
• 1897 » Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1897 » Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder († 1967)
• 1898 » John Grierson, Scottish director and producer († 1972)
• 1898 » Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1899 » Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader († 1958)
• 1900 » Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist († 1985)
• 1900 » Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder and calligrapher († 1969)
• 1900 » Hack Wilson, American baseball player († 1948)

• 1865 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)

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.
• January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
• 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.
• May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
• May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
• June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
• June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.

The temperature on April 26, 1900 was about 4.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.