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• Albertus Schreuder, Leusden († 1900)
• Alexander Jacobus den Os, Delft,Delft,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1900)
• Adriana Hoogendam, Rotterdam († 1901)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Baris, Rotterdam
• Adriana Maria van Grinsven, Kessel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1939)
• Alberdina Aleida Neger, Arnhem, Nederland
• Albertus Schreuder, Leusden,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1900)
• Adriana Hoogendam, Rotterdam († 1901)
• Alida Clasina Lagerweij, Monster
• Adrianus Kuilboer, Oude-Niedorp, North Holland, Netherlands († 1979)

• Charles Gelinas Bellemare (121)
• Barendina Floor (44), Harselaar (gem. Barneveld), Gelderland, Nederland
• Arend Oldenburg (76), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Thoene (85), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Hendrina Verhaaf (54), Nijmegen
• Barendina Floor (44), Harselaar (Barneveld)
• Carolus Vandamme (82), Westrozebeke,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Berend Jan Korteling (30), Aalten
• Abigail J. Kaylor (65)
• Cornelis Bravenboer (0), Nieuw Helvoet, prov. Zuid Holland

• 1892 » Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British peer and grandfather of Diana Spencer († 1975)
• 1896 » Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer († 1966)
• 1897 » Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motorcycle racer († 1937)
• 1898 » Josef Terboven, German soldier and politician († 1945)
• 1898 » Scott O'Dell, American soldier, journalist, and author († 1989)
• 1899 » Jeralean Talley, American super-centenarian († 2015)
• 1900 » Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and theorist († 1954)
• 1900 » Hans Frank, German lawyer and politician († 1946)
• 1908 » Hélène Boucher, French pilot († 1934)
• 1908 » John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)

• 1868 » Kit Carson, American general (b. 1809)
• 1886 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (b. 1795)
• 1893 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 » Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1906 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)
• 1908 » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
• 1921 » August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (b. 1872)
• 1934 » Clyde Barrow, American criminal (b. 1909)
• 1934 » Mihkel Martna, Estonian journalist and politician (b. 1860)

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.
• April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
• May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
• May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
• June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
• 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 May 23, 1900 was about 16.5 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%.