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• Albert Hooijerink, Lochem
• Adriana Wilhelmina Schalk, Princenhage, Nederland († 1970)
• Opperman, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Alphenaar, 's-Gravenhage
• Aaltje Jacobs Menger, Weststellingwerf, Nederland († 1902)
• Adriaantje Van BIERT, Stad aan 't Haringvliet
• Adrianus Cornelis Willems, Hoogeloon († 1969)
• Alida Veldhuizen, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1989)
• Alida Veldhuizen, Noordwolde († 1989)
• Adriaan Gerard Linde, Den Helder

• Cartharina van Sprundel (70), Rijsbergen
• Brezitta Jacob (62), Erembodegem
• Antje Eeltjes Luxen (52), Sneek
• Beerend JANSEN van GALEN (68), Rozendaal, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernard Antonious Schipper (0), Lobith (Rijnwaarden), Gelderland, Netherlands
• Berend HUIZING (0), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Aagje van der Plas (76)
• Anna Maria van den Berg (73), Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant)
• Catharina Quick (0), Lillo, Provincie Antwerpen
• Aletta van den Brink (0), Utrecht, Nederland

• 1898 » Lucius D. Clay, American general († 1978)
• 1899 » Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1899 » Minoru Shirota, Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult († 1982)
• 1900 » Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1959)
• 1900 » Joseph Green, Polish-American actor and director († 1996)
• 1901 » E. B. Ford, English biologist and geneticist († 1988)
• 1902 » Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1903 » Guy Simonds, English-Canadian general († 1974)
• 1904 » Clifford Bricker, Canadian long-distance runner († 1980)
• 1904 » Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter († 2001)

• 1850 » William Wordsworth, English poet and author (b. 1770)
• 1889 » Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic (b. 1808)
• 1895 » Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (b. 1815)
• 1905 » Gédéon Ouimet, Canadian politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (b. 1823)
• 1907 » Alferd Packer, American prospector (b. 1842)
• 1915 » Rupert Brooke, English poet (b. 1887)
• 1936 » Teresa de la Parra, French-Venezuelan author (b. 1889)
• 1951 » Charles G. Dawes, American banker and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Jules Berry, French actor and director (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Bak Jungyang, Korean politician

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Wilhelmus
14. Arie
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Petronella
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
• May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
• June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
• October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
• October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
• October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
• November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.

The temperature on April 23, 1901 was between 7.6 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (83%).