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• Adrianus Wilhelmus Anthonius (Edward) Bontje, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Albert Kielman, Musselkanaal († 1902)
• Adriana Stolk, Oud Beijerland Z.H († 1979)
• Adrianus van Well, Dubbeldam, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1910)
• Adriana den Boer, Hooge Zwaluwe († 2000)
• Albert Bannink, Zutphen († 1966)
• Anna Maria Hubertina Otten, Pey, Limburg, Nederland († 1964)
• Alphonsine Elise Coenen, Sint-Truiden, België
• Aaltje Martens, Ommen († 1901)
• Adriana VIJFVINKEL, Zuid-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, PAYS-BAS († 1901)

• Adrianus van der Steen (65), Vught
• (70), Oostende
• Antonia M. Conijn (1), Edam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Putz (45), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland (Netherlands)
• Cornelis Hendriks (60), Sambeek
• Catharina Wilhelmina Beemsterboer (2), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Catharina Wilhelmina Beemsterboer (1), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amalie Theodore Hug (82), Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (Baden) D
• Annechien van der Laan (14), Zuidbroek (gem. Midden-Groningen)
• Alida Josina Ouwendijk (0), Rijswijk

• 1893 » Ernst Marcus, German zoologist († 1968)
• 1893 » Gaby Morlay, French actress († 1964)
• 1894 » Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer and pianist († 1942)
• 1895 » Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and manager († 1978)
• 1897 » John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist († 1974)
• 1899 » Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician († 1945)
• 1899 » Eugène Lapierre, Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator († 1970)
• 1900 » Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously († 1945)
• 1903 » Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet († 1987)
• 1903 » Ralph Yarborough, American colonel and politician († 1996)

• 1857 » Douglas William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (b. 1803)
• 1874 » Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)
• 1876 » George Sand, French author and playwright (b. 1804)
• 1885 » Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (b. 1799)
• 1889 » Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844)
• 1899 » Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (b. 1863)
• 1924 » Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1902)
• 1924 » George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Bliss Carman, Canadian-American poet and playwright (b. 1861)
• 1945 » Karl Hanke, Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903)

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.
• January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
• January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
• August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
• August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
• October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

The temperature on June 8, 1901 was between 7.1 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (72%).