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• Adrienne Petronella Maas Geesteranus, Hillegersberg,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Aleida Antonia Booms († 1907)
• Anna Maria van Oosterhout, Boxtel
• Agnes D H Sey, 70 Barclay Street, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire († 1975)
• Afien Bunk, Vriescheloo, Groningen, Nederland († 2001)
• Adrianus van Boekel, Empel († 1900)
• Aleida Maria Brummelhuis, Hengevelde, Ambt Delden, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1993)
• Alida Karreman Karreman, Overschie,Zuid Holland,Nederland
• Abeltje Meijerhof, Woldendorp (Termunten) († 1960)
• Abeltje Meijerhof, Woldendorp (NL) († 1960)

• Age Johannes Bosma (65), Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aart Lourens Veenendaal (73), Barneveld
• Abraham van Mil (6), Tiel, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Albertine Krot (47), Leeuwarden
• Alida Johanna Hendrika Geiger (15), Van Rhynsdorp, Cape Province, South Africa
• * Grietje Grave (0), Tange gem. Onstwedde
• Anna Maria Deenen (44), Sambeek
• Albert Henry Arnold (1), Milton District, Kent, England
• Adrianus de Waal (1), Neerijnen
• Adriana Schoonhoven (79), Utrecht, Nederland

• 1893 » Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1894 » Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic († 1970)
• 1895 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor († 1967)
• 1895 » Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar and critic († 1970)
• 1899 » Duke Ellington, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1974)
• 1899 » Mary Petty, American illustrator († 1976)
• 1900 » Amelia Best, Australian politician, one of the first women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly († 1979)
• 1900 » Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist and intellectual, exiled during the Spanish Civil War († 1972)
• 1901 » Hirohito, Japanese emperor († 1989)
• 1907 » Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer († 1997)

• 1854 » Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1768)
• 1903 » Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1916 » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
• 1920 » William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
• 1921 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)
• 1944 » Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)
• 1945 » Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (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 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
• February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
• February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
• April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
• June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
• June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.

The temperature on April 29, 1900 was about 8.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.