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• Aaltje Idema, Visvliet, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Veltrop, Nieuw-Weerdinge, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• van der Valk, Zierikzee († 1901)
• Valk, van der, Zierikzee gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL († 1901)
• Anna Josephina van Wezel, Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1989)
• Aloijsius Jacobus Matheus Jansen, Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Josephina van Wezel, Goirle, Gemeente Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1989)
• Adriaan Pieter Versteeg, 's gravenmoer
• Adriana de Krom, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1901)
• Albert Evertsz Ras († 1979)

• Antje Hoekstra (81), Bolsward
• Aaldrik de Vries (0), Westerlee, Scheemda, Groningen, Netherlands
• Adelaide Louise Oliver (58)
• Anna Maria Beekman (32), Maastricht
• Arie de Waard (38), Arnhem
• Anna Maria Beekman (33), Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Antonia Bouhuijsen (80), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anthonie Gijsbertus de Zwart (50), Utrecht, Nederland
• Agatha Wilhelmina van Alphen (32), Voorhout, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Gildemeester (72), Scheveningen

• 1896 » Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician († 1976)
• 1898 » Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician († 1984)
• 1898 » Tian Han, Chinese playwright († 1968)
• 1899 » Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer († 1955)
• 1900 » Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia († 1975)
• 1900 » Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete († 1972)
• 1904 » Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian mathematician († 1976)
• 1905 » Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor († 1982)
• 1907 » Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic († 2007)
• 1908 » Rita Angus, New Zealand painter († 1970)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

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.
• March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
• 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.
• August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
• September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
• December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

The temperature on March 12, 1901 was between 3.9 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (35%).