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• Adriana Maria Heijden van der, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Snoijs, Rijsbergen
• Adriana Maria Hendrika Jansen, Helmond († 1974)
• Albertus Hool, Baarn († 1899)
• Agnes Van Zanten, Friesland, Netherlands († 1961)
• Agatha Geertruida van 't Hart, Rotterdam
• Adriana Maria van der Heijden, Fijnaart
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• Aaltje Brunink, Winschoten (Groningen)
• Aantoon Gerrit Willem Navis, Ruurlo

• Aaltje (Alida) Traan (80), Velsen (Santpoort)
• Zijl (0), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus van der PUT (59), Etten en Leur
• Bernadus Huethorst (73), Gaanderen
• Bernardus Huethorst (73), Gaanderen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonie Jakobs (54), Tongelre
• Alida Wilhelmina van Dinteren (45), Wassenaar
• Antonia Maria van den Brand (0), Boxtel (Boxtel) (Noord-Brabant)
• Bernard Eliza Schuit (0), Breda, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Van den Berg (36), nijehaske

• 1894 » Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher († 1977)
• 1895 » Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1895 » Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1896 » Antonino Votto, Italian conductor († 1985)
• 1896 » Harry Randall Truman, American soldier († 1980)
• 1896 » Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and educator († 1928)
• 1896 » Rex Cherryman, American actor († 1928)
• 1896 » Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter († 1985)
• 1897 » Agustín Lara, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor († 1970)
• 1898 » Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager († 1989)

• 1882 » William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1818)
• 1883 » Dayananda Saraswati, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1824)
• 1883 » Robert Volkmann, German pianist and composer (b. 1815)
• 1893 » John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
• 1894 » Honoré Mercier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
• 1895 » James Patterson, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Victoria (b. 1833)
• 1896 » Carol Benesch, Czech architect, designed Peleș Castle (b. 1822)
• 1899 » William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. 1816)
• 1905 » Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Queensland (b. 1843)
• 1910 » Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)

• 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 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.
• August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
• 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.
• November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.

The temperature on October 30, 1897 was about 5.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.