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• Adrianus Franciscus Wilhelmus de Bie, Chaam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)
• Adriana Theodora Maria Gordijn, Rijswijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• Alida Maria Theunis, Amsterdam (Prov.Noord Holland)
• * Jacoba Sleeuwenhoek, Nieuwerkerk
• Alida Wilhelmina Catharina van Donk, Amsterdam († 1982)
• Adolf Harm Dijkmeijer, Noordbroek († 2000)
• Van Tichelen, Essen, Antwerpen,België († 1978)
• Alfons Peter Peeters, Baal († 1970)
• Alida Maria du Pau, Uithoorn, Noord Holland († 1969)
• Adrianus Franciscus Wilhelmus de Bie, Chaam († 1994)

• Adriana Heijkoop (79), Poederoijen (80jr)
• de Jong (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Meulmeester (80), Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Schreuders (56), Haarlemmermeer
• Anna Margaretha Vliegen (50), Simpelveld
• Albertus Koerts (70), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aagtje Konijn (31), Alkmaar
• Adrianus van Laarhoven (74), Loon op Zand, Gemeente Loon op Zand, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Abraham van der Star (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anaïs Astalie "Marie" Bailly du Pont (80), Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, France

• 1895 » Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications († 1979)
• 1899 » Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter († 1984)
• 1899 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player († 1938)
• 1900 » Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1901 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager († 1968)
• 1902 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician († 1954)
• 1902 » Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor († 2004)
• 1905 » George Nakashima, American woodworker and architect († 1990)
• 1905 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1909 » Wilbur Mills, American banker and politician († 1992)

• 1861 » Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
• 1879 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 » Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Wilhelmus
14. Dirk
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Adriana
7. Elisabeth
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Geertruida
13. Petronella
14. Grietje
15. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• 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 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 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
• April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
• May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
• October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
• November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
• December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

The temperature on May 24, 1902 was between 8.7 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 16.0 hours of sunshine (99%).