About the day » Monday August 13, 1900Calender converter

• Alphonsius Pauwels, Bornem, Belgi�
• Aloijsius Cornelius Verhoeven, Tilburg, NB, Nederland († 1900)
• Hendrika Jacoba Vermijs, Oosterhout
• Alphonsius Pauwels, Bornem († 1972)
• Aafke Steunebrink, Aengwirden
• Alice Dorothy Greenfield, NZBDM 1901/1561 Oamaru, New Zealand († 1941)
• Alida Bronk, Rotterdam († 1918)
• Akke Zwier, Terband, Friesland, Nederland († 1976)
• Adrianus Ludovicus Wildschut, Maastricht, Nederland
• Anna Gertrud Baadjou, Scherpenseel, Eschweiler, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1987)

• Adrianus van Rooij (1), Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje KALKMAN (0), Lekkerkerk (Z.-H.), Neth
• Annaatje van der Molen (58), Amsterdam
• Anthonius AUDENAERT (54), Sint-Jansteen,Oost Zeeuws-Vlaanderen,Zeeland,PAYS BAS
• Abraham Yerxa Jr. (84), Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States of America
• Anje DRIJFHOUT (0), Niezijl (Grijpskerk) Groningen Netherlands
• Alida Sophia Buitenom (51), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• anna ringeling (0), rotterdam
• Anthonie Everardus van Vliet (0), Veldhuizen, Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alison Jack (41), Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

• 1895 » Bert Lahr, American actor († 1967)
• 1895 » István Barta, Hungarian water polo player († 1948)
• 1898 » Jean Borotra, French tennis player († 1994)
• 1898 » Regis Toomey, American actor († 1991)
• 1899 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer († 1980)
• 1902 » Felix Wankel, German engineer († 1988)
• 1904 » Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician († 1999)
• 1904 » Margaret Tafoya, Native American Pueblo potter († 2001)
• 1906 » Art Shires, American baseball player and boxer († 1967)
• 1906 » Chuck Carroll, American football player and lawyer († 2003)

• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903)

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 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.
• April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

The temperature on August 13, 1900 was about 21.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.