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• Aaltje Griffioen, Amsterdam († 1906)
• Adriana Aijnsd de Bruin, Heenvliet, nh.nld († 1907)
• Adrianus Johannes Koelemij, Velsen († 1983)
• Adriana Cornelia van der Pluijm, Roosendaal, Nederland
• Oorschot, Meerkerk, Utrecht, Nederland († 1897)
• Adriaan Wabeke, Wemeldinge, Zeeland, Nederland († 1897)
• Aartje Balkenende, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Alida Carolina Augustina de Liefde, Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Lookman, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1985)
• Albert Hoekstra, Workum,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland

• Anna Maria van Tienen (58), Oeffelt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Amelia Parsons (75), Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
• Alida Geertruida Sauveur (72), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Francisca van de Wiel (0), Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord Brabant)
• Adriana Maria Kouwenberg (39), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Visscher (61), Genemuiden, Overijssel, Nederland
• (1) Johannes Kampers (49), Zwaag, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Antonia Maria van den Hout (0), Goirle
• Antonia Buijs (0), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Lee Darden (30), Wood, Texas, United States

• 1894 » Johann Nikuradse, Georgian-born German engineer and physicist († 1979)
• 1895 » Pierre Cot, French politician († 1977)
• 1896 » Carl Mayer, Austrian-Jewish screenplay writer († 1944)
• 1896 » Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese supercentenarian († 2001)
• 1897 » Germaine Krull, German photographer and political activist († 1985)
• 1898 » Adrian Piotrovsky, Russian dramaturge († 1937)
• 1898 » Richmond Landon, American high jumper († 1971)
• 1899 » Alicja Kotowska, Polish nun († 1939)
• 1900 » Florieda Batson, American hurdler, captain of the United States team at the 1922 Women's Olympics († 1996)
• 1900 » Helen Bradley, English painter († 1979)

• 1880 » Léon Cogniet, French painter (b. 1794)
• 1882 » Henry Draper, American doctor and astronomer (b. 1837)
• 1886 » William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
• 1894 » Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1829)
• 1898 » Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (b. 1817)
• 1903 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, French race car driver (b. 1867)
• 1903 » Tom Horn, American scout, cowboy, soldier
• 1908 » Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor (b. 1829)
• 1908 » Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1868)
• 1910 » Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (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.
• April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
• 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 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
• December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.

The temperature on November 20, 1897 was about 8.4 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.