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• Aaltje stoffels Wierda, Oldeboorn († 1986)
• Agatha Maria ONDERWATER, Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Adriana Albertine Sieders, Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Adrianus Nagtzaam, Amsterdam († 1902)
• Alice Charlotte Pointer, Gillingham, Medway, Kent, England († 1991)
• Aaltje Stoffels Wierda, Oldeboorn, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jans Blom, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Alfred Leo Van den Eede, Moorsel
• Aaldert van Mourik, Asch († 1901)
• Aart Rijsdijk, Rotterdam († 1901)

• Alphonsus Maria Jutten (54), Stekene (B)
• Anna Eiphemia Maria Schulte (54), De Maten
• Anne Marie KESSLER (73), Schlierbach, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Barend Beentjes (72), Bloemendaal
• Bossard, Monster
• Albert Christiaan Trotz (49), 's-Gravenhage
• Alijda Van LAAR
• Arnold Antoon van Dijk (46), Venlo, Gemeente Venlo, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Heuvel (31), Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barbara Dilling Hoover (41)

• 1890 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer († 1980)
• 1892 » James Basevi Ord, Mexican-American colonel († 1938)
• 1897 » Jackson Scholz, American runner († 1986)
• 1900 » Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian and writer († 1987)
• 1904 » George Brent, Irish-American actor († 1979)
• 1904 » J. Pat O'Malley, English-American actor († 1985)
• 1905 » Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German lawyer and judge († 1944)
• 1907 » Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer († 1981)
• 1909 » Jaroslava Muchová Syllabová, Czech painter († 1986)
• 1912 » Lightnin' Hopkins, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1982)

• 1891 » Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819)
• 1897 » James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (b. 1814)
• 1898 » Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (b. 1813)
• 1921 » Talaat Pasha, Ottoman politician, 281st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1874)
• 1927 » Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1858)
• 1933 » Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (b. 1886)
• 1937 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, and novelist (b. 1890)
• 1938 » Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1888)
• 1939 » Luis Barceló, Spanish colonel (b. 1896)
• 1941 » Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian-German painter (b. 1864)

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 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
• February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
• May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
• August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
• August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
• 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 15, 1901 was between 1.2 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (25%).