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• Adriana Maria Bruijstens, Hedikhuizen († 1990)
• Alida Elisabeth Johanna van der Linden, Leiden
• Aafke Ennema
• Lambert Pol, Hollandscheveld
• Aaltje Botter, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands
• Anna Catharina van der Helm, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan de Groot, Hoornaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Adriana Smits, Princenhage († 1985)
• Anna Catharina van der Helm, Rijswijk
• Aafje Schilder, Den Helder († 1970)

• Bettie Barnette Steel (42), Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
• Ate Sybrens Bokma (37), Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Arij de ROO (83), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hoogen van den (74), Schaijk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriana Geertruida van der Voort (1), 's-Gravenzande
• Berendina Voogsgerd (77), Enschede
• Anje Visser (39), Adorp, Groningen, Nederland
• Carel Frederik Busscher (84), Batavia, Java, Ned. Indië
• (71), Gouda, Nederland
• Andreas van den Elsen (71), Gemert, Nederland

• 1892 » Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British peer and grandfather of Diana Spencer († 1975)
• 1896 » Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer († 1966)
• 1897 » Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motorcycle racer († 1937)
• 1898 » Josef Terboven, German soldier and politician († 1945)
• 1898 » Scott O'Dell, American soldier, journalist, and author († 1989)
• 1899 » Jeralean Talley, American super-centenarian († 2015)
• 1900 » Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and theorist († 1954)
• 1900 » Hans Frank, German lawyer and politician († 1946)
• 1908 » Hélène Boucher, French pilot († 1934)
• 1908 » John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)

• 1868 » Kit Carson, American general (b. 1809)
• 1886 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (b. 1795)
• 1893 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 » Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1906 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)
• 1908 » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
• 1921 » August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (b. 1872)
• 1934 » Clyde Barrow, American criminal (b. 1909)
• 1934 » Mihkel Martna, Estonian journalist and politician (b. 1860)

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.
• June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
• November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
• 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.
• 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".
• 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 May 23, 1901 was between 5.5 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (69%).