About the day » Wednesday January 20, 1897Calender converter

• Swinkels, Geldrop († 1954)
• Alice Elizabeth Agnes HENDERSON, Boree, New South Wales, Australia († 1984)
• Aartje Mulder, Ermelo († 1901)
• Adriana Margaretha Hubertina van Eyck, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1970)
• Adrianus Antonius Bogaers, Tilburg († 1897)
• Adriaan Marinus Scherpenisse, St. Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Strooper, Harenkarspel († 1954)
• Aart (Aort) Roelofsen, Lunteren († 1971)
• Aart Roelofsen, Lunteren, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1971)
• Alicia Christina Vanderstiggel, Merelbeke († 1969)

• Daniel Van Der Sleen (57), Stuifzand
• Almina S. Thornton (54), Vassar, Tuscola County, Michigan
• Anna Maria Holders (85), Zeeland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Maria Boom (69), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernard Gerhard Krusemeijer (76), Mettingen, Pruisen, Duitsland
• Adriaan van der Loo (80), Raamsdonk
• Aaltjen Andries Jager (83), Ooststellingwerf
• Antje Simons (Sijmons) Volbeda (74), Sexbierum, Barradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Angélique SEGHERS (77), Camphin-en-Pévèle,59780,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Antonie Hendrik Diamant (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1893 » Georg Åberg, Swedish triple jumper († 1946)
• 1894 » Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie († 1968)
• 1894 » Walter Piston, American composer, theorist, and academic († 1976)
• 1895 » Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician and academic († 1985)
• 1896 » George Burns, American actor, comedian, and producer († 1996)
• 1898 » U Razak, Burmese educator and politician († 1947)
• 1899 » Clarice Cliff, English potter († 1972)
• 1899 » Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer († 1990)
• 1900 » Colin Clive, English actor († 1937)
• 1900 » Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist († 1983)

• 1873 » Basil Moreau, French priest, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
• 1875 » Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1891 » Kalākaua, king of Hawaii (b. 1836)
• 1900 » John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (b. 1826)
• 1907 » Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (b. 1842)
• 1908 » John Ordronaux, American surgeon and academic (b. 1830)
• 1913 » José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1915 » Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, Irish businessman, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1840)
• 1920 » Georg Lurich, Estonian-Russian wrestler and strongman (b. 1876)

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

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
• February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
• April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
• May 26 » The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.
• July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
• September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.

The temperature on January 20, 1897 was about -3.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.