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• * Anna Ambachtsheer, Hardinxveld († 1977)
• (Stillborn) HOEXUM, Rasquert (Baflo) Groningen Netherlands († 1901)
• Anna Maria van Beurden, Tilburg († 1987)
• Anna Alberdina Schonewille, Hoogeveen
• Ijzermans, Dulken (Duitsland ) († 1980)
• Anna Alberdina Schonewille, Noord (Hoogeveen), Nederland
• Adriaantje van den Heuvel, Soest
• Anna Maria Beurden, van, Tilburg, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Savelkouls, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1990)
• Anna Maria Wazignoy, Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland

• Antonia Meys (51)
• Aaltjen Pardijs (19), Vorden
• Alida Cornelia NOORDERGRAAF (7), Rotterdam (Z.-H.), Neth
• Adrianus Durinck (0), Graauw en Langendam
• Albert Heuning (71), Groningen
• Adrianus Durinck (0), Graauw en Langendam (Zld)
• Anna Louisa Portier (62), Kecamatan Semarang Utara, Indonesië
• Annigje (Grietje) Entjes (45), Barger-Erfscheidenveen
• Albertus Michiels Binksma (64), Lutjegast
• Albertus Michiel Binksma (64), Westerhorn o/d Grijpskerk

• 1896 » Rupert Atkinson, English RAF officer († 1919)
• 1898 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer († 1991)
• 1898 » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer († 1999)
• 1899 » James Cagney, American actor and dancer († 1986)
• 1900 » Marcel Dalio, French actor († 1983)
• 1901 » Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author († 1938)
• 1901 » Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver († 1994)
• 1901 » Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine († 1982)
• 1902 » Christina Stead, Australian author and academic († 1983)
• 1905 » William Gargan, American actor († 1979)

• 1883 » Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)
• 1885 » Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 » Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1894 » Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
• 1907 » Hector Malot, French author and critic (b. 1830)
• 1912 » Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)
• 1918 » Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family

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. Hendrikus
15. Arie
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 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
• March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
• 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.
• August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
• November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.

The temperature on July 17, 1901 was between 11.1 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (66%).