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• De Ridder, Oostzaan, North Holland, The Netherlands († 1964)
• Anna Maria Oosenbrug, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Jacoba Maan, Loosduinen
• Alida Everdina Johanna Holdtgrefe, Amsterdam († 1987)
• Adriana van der Weijde, Zierikzee, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Willemsteijn, Barendrecht († 1963)
• Aartje Louisa Diamant, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1898)
• Amma Maria Oosenbrug, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1995)
• Adrianus Cornelis van PEPERSTRATEN Jzn, Ooltgensplaat, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH († 1897)
• Adriaantje Maria Troost, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Knobbout (0), Beusichem (Buren) (GL)
• Anna Gerardina Wttewaal Van Stoetwegen (60), Velp (gem. Rheden)
• Bastiaan Kranendonk Oosthoek (46), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Verbeek (0), Tiel
• Bruin Portengen (75), Loosdrecht, Noord-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Vanhommerig (27), Bocholtz
• Catharina Baas (0), Maarsseveen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Lammertse (1), Baarn
• Christiaan Veltman (0), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Christiaan Kok (4), Schiedam

• 1892 » Dink Johnson, American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player († 1954)
• 1893 » Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist († 1970)
• 1896 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator († 1981)
• 1897 » Edith Head, American costume designer († 1981)
• 1897 » Hans Speidel, German general († 1984)
• 1901 » Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet († 1979)
• 1902 » Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer († 1986)
• 1903 » Evelyn Waugh, English journalist, author, and critic († 1966)
• 1903 » John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic († 1995)
• 1904 » George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author († 1986)

• 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
• 1918 » Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)

• 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.
• 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 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
• June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
• August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
• 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.

The temperature on October 28, 1897 was about 7.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.