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• Alberdina Buist, Emmen († 1950)
• Antonius Adrianus Bastiaansen, Ginneken en Bavel († 1985)
• Adriana Wilhelmina KOOPMAN, Dordrecht
• Agatha Maria Kouwenhoven, Veur
• Agatha Maria Kouwenhoven, Veur (nu Ldm) († 1952)
• Aart Jan Fikse, Kampen, Ov, The Netherlands († 1985)
• Alphonsus Sijnesael, Hoofdplaat, Sluis, Zeeland, Nl
• Alida van Duijvenbode, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• , Sassenheim, Netherlands († 1983)
• Angelina Facciolla, São Paulo, Brasil († 1980)

• Catharina Vansteelant (81), Moorslede,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Albert van Hasselt (0), Erica, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• August Agustinus Prenen (0), Hulst
• adriana Lauwen (75), Oudenbosch
• Benjamin W. Killian (85), Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States
• Abeltje Weijer (0), Sappemeer
• Anna Maria ( Magdalena) Badenhorst (73), Klerksdorp.North West, South Africa
• Arthur John Bethell Thellusson (75), Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England
• Aaltje van der Starre (73), Waddinxveen Z.H
• AALTJE VAN DER STARRE (73), WADDINXVEEN

• 1897 » Isabel Briggs Myers, American theorist and author († 1980)
• 1898 » Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress († 1981)
• 1902 » Miriam Hopkins, American actress († 1972)
• 1902 » Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist († 1980)
• 1903 » Lina Radke, German runner and coach († 1983)
• 1904 » A. J. Liebling, American journalist and author († 1963)
• 1904 » Haim Shirman, Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic († 1981)
• 1905 » Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire († 1993)
• 1905 » Jan Gies, Dutch activist († 1993)
• 1906 » James Brooks, American painter and educator († 1992)

• 1871 » Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
• 1876 » Francis Preston Blair, American journalist (b. 1791)
• 1886 » Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (b. 1796)
• 1889 » Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808)
• 1892 » William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1893 » Charles Gounod, French composer and educator (b. 1818)
• 1908 » Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Alfred Binet, French psychologist and author (b. 1857)
• 1921 » Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847)

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.
• February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
• August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
• September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
• October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
• October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
• November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.

The temperature on October 18, 1901 was between 8.7 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (50%).