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• Anna Bosch, Barger-Oosterveen Emmen Drenthe Nederland († 1906)
• Andries Tillema, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus van Diemen, Haarlem († 1962)
• Aaltje Klein Haneveld, Deventer
• Adriana de Kivit, Dubbeldam
• Aafje Vulperhorst, Vinkeveen en Waverveen, De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Brouwers, Achel (B), België († 1955)
• Adrianus Cornelis Rijsdijk, Zwijndrecht († 1901)
• Albert van Maanen, Wageningen (NL)
• "Jean" Marie Olivier Brunnin Guyard de Saint-Chéron, Champigny-sur-Vesle, Marne, France († 1976)

• Anna Enthoven (69), Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Sarris Brevoord (0), Hattem
• Bernardus Hendrikus Brinker (49), Erica (Emmen)
• Arie de Haas (72), Moordrecht
• Clara Pekrie (51), Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Cornelia van Sikkelerus (65), Hontenisse, zeeland, Nederland
• Barbara Jensine Dorthea Larsen (67), Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
• Cornelia de Ruig (34), Baarn
• Anna Catharina Grada Steemers (58), Arnhem
• Jan Michael Jacob Loyson (52), Ubach over worms

• 1895 » C. Suntharalingam, Sri Lankan lawyer, academic, and politician († 1985)
• 1899 » Colleen Moore, American actress († 1988)
• 1900 » Dorothy Burr Thompson, American archaeologist and art historian († 2001)
• 1900 » Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher, author, and academic († 1976)
• 1900 » Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer († 1962)
• 1902 » Ogden Nash, American poet († 1971)
• 1903 » James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer († 1978)
• 1904 » Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman († 1963)
• 1906 » Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor († 1971)
• 1907 » Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Indian historian, author, and scholar († 1979)

• 1883 » Jeremiah S. Black, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Attorney General (b. 1810)
• 1889 » Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1838)
• 1895 » John Wesley Hardin, American Old West outlaw, gunfighter (b. 1853)
• 1900 » Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1833)
• 1914 » Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
• 1915 » Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator (b. 1867)
• 1923 » Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
• 1928 » Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and diplomat, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1838)
• 1929 » Sergei Diaghilev, Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (b. 1872)
• 1932 » Louis Anquetin, French painter (b. 1861)

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 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
• April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
• May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
• 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.
• July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
• July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.

The temperature on August 19, 1900 was about 18.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.