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• aaldert van den berg, amsterdam († 1976)
• Adrianus Martinus Schuurbiers, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1914)
• Almond Henry Draayers († 1983)
• Miltenburg, Utrecht († 1897)
• Adolf (Dolf) Heeren, Brasschaat († 1944)
• Aaltje Snip, Roderveld, Gem. Roden († 1977)
• 'n Levenloos geboren zoon van Snabel, Gouda († 1897)
• Adriana te Pas, 's-Gravenhage
• Adolphine Cornelia Rassink, Pati, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Alexander Van Hengel, Barendrecht († 1918)

• Augustinus Govers (2), Tilburg, Nederland
• Brand van Meerveld, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Barend Luza (1), Amsterdam
• Alonzo Tarquin Herrick (80), Ravenna, Portage, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• (Stillborn) POSTMA (0), Ameland Friesland Netherlands
• Baukje Lieuwes Palstra (81), Tirns (WYM), Wymbritseradiel, Friesland, Nederland
• Alphonse Antoine César Joachim de JESSÉ-CHARLEVAL (63), Paris, 75056, Paris, Ile-de-France, Frankrijk
• Anna Jacoba Appelman (1), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Gower Villiers (56), Lathom House, Lathom, Lancashire
• Berend Jan Elbert (53), Hengelo-Woolde

• 1890 » El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect († 1941)
• 1892 » Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer († 1990)
• 1896 » Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak politician, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic († 1953)
• 1896 » Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna († 1960)
• 1897 » Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war criminal († 1948)
• 1897 » Nirad C. Chaudhuri, British-Indian historian, author, and critic († 1999)
• 1899 » Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist and educator († 1974)
• 1901 » Bennie Osler, South African rugby player († 1962)
• 1902 » Aaron Bank, American colonel († 2004)
• 1902 » Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor († 1982)

• 1890 » William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
• 1899 » Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded White Star Line (b. 1837)
• 1905 » John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist and academic (b. 1828)
• 1910 » Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
• 1927 » Miguel Pro, Mexican priest and martyr (b. 1891)
• 1934 » Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
• 1937 » George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (b. 1858)
• 1937 » Jagadish Chandra Bose, Bangladeshi-Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (b. 1858)
• 1937 » Miklós Kovács, Hungarian-Slovene cantor and poet (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Stanley Argyle, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1867)

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.
• August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
• September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
• 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.
• December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.

The temperature on November 23, 1897 was about 3.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.