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• Adrianus van den Berg, den Haag
• Adriana van Breugel, Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agnes Petronella Faaij, Den Haag
• Aaltje Luit, Nieuw-Buinen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriaan de Jonge, Zierikzee († 1953)
• Aaltje Jacobs Vis, St. Jacobiparochie († 1902)
• Aletta Catharina Johanna Brand
• Alfons DOLMANS, Boorsheim,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgie († 1959)
• "Leopold Maria Alphons" Blanka Karl Anton Beatrix Raphael Michael Joseph Peter Ignatius von Habsburg-Toskana, Zagreb, Croatie († 1958)
• Aaltje Pruntel, Westerveld, Gemeente Noordenveld

• Angelina BUIJCK (74), Groede, Sluis, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Zeeland, Nederland
• ?? Blonk (0), Boskoop
• Anna Catharina van den Elst (64), 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Van Dyck (78), Rijkevorsel, ANTW, B
• Amandus DeSimpel (69), Hooglede,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Alfred SEYMOUR (53)
• Anna Geertruida van der Linden (66)
• Antonio Joaquim de Carvalho (58), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil
• Alagonda Margaretha Johanna Welbergen (72), Groningen
• Albertus Versteeg (0), Ambt Almelo, aan de Graven

• 1882 » Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States († 1945)
• 1889 » Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and playwright († 1937)
• 1899 » Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1900 » Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress († 1969)
• 1901 » Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver († 1959)
• 1902 » Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar († 1983)
• 1910 » Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence († 2000)
• 1911 » Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpet player († 1989)
• 1912 » Francis Schaeffer, American pastor and theologian († 1984)
• 1912 » Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic († 1988)

• 1858 » Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (b. 1778)
• 1867 » Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
• 1869 » William Carleton, Irish author (b. 1794)
• 1881 » Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (b. 1844)
• 1889 » Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary (b. 1858)
• 1926 » Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1928 » Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1929 » La Goulue, French model and dancer (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Frederick Blackman, English botanist and physiologist (b. 1866)

• 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.
• January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
• July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
• July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
• July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
• September 11 » After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
• 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 30, 1897 was about -2.4 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.