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• Aaltje Jansen, Oosterbeek (Renkum) († 1902)
• , Nijenslekerveld, Vledder, Nederland († 1903)
• Adrianus Josephus Antonius Wouters, Breda († 1957)
• Adrianus Smit, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1905)
• Angenitus Cornelis Quist, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NED († 1902)
• Angele Hadjila NAKACHE, Bône, Algérie
• Angenitus Cornelis Quist, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1902)
• Angenies Cornelia Stuivenberg († 1902)
• Aaltje van Holland, Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Slegtenhorst, Leiden, Nederland († 1902)

• Aartje Zevenbergen (55)
• Aike Scholte (65), Bellingwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna DIJK, VAN (68), Winschoten
• Aike Scholte (65), Bellingwolde, Nederland
• Anna VAN GESTEL (74), Geldrop,North-Brabant,Netherlands
• Anton den Adel (1)
• Anna Catharina VERSCHUREN (83), Etten-Leur,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Anna Ritsema van Eck (0), Banjoemas, Java, Indonesië
• Alida Stodel (1), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Libbes Westra (75), Kollum, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1896 » Carl Zuckmayer, German author and playwright († 1977)
• 1896 » Louis Bromfield, American author and theorist († 1956)
• 1896 » Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist († 1952)
• 1898 » Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician († 1960)
• 1900 » Hans Stuck, German race car driver († 1978)
• 1901 » Irene Handl, English actress († 1987)
• 1901 » Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer († 1992)
• 1904 » René Bonnet, French race car driver and engineer († 1983)
• 1905 » Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian († 1974)
• 1906 » Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, and actor († 1972)

• 1896 » John Brown, English businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1900 » William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, English engineer and businessman, founded Armstrong Whitworth (b. 1810)
• 1914 » Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog (b. 1846)
• 1923 » Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (b. 1832)
• 1924 » Agda Meyerson, Swedish nurse and healthcare activist (b. 1866)
• 1936 » Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, academic, and politician (b. 1873)
• 1938 » Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (b. 1889)
• 1938 » Osip Mandelstam, Polish-Russian poet and critic (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Zona Gale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1874)

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 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
• March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
• May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
• June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
• November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
• December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

The temperature on December 27, 1901 was between 1.1 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (54%).