About the day » Monday March 22, 1897Calender converter

• Aaltje Maria van Kraanen, Wageningen
• Pieter, Terneuzen Nederland
• Adriana Wielink, vlissingen († 1897)
• Ida Koster, Tietjerksteradeel
• Albertus Mattheus Cremers, Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland († 1959)
• Albertje Wijbrands, Hindeloopen († 1950)
• Alice Smythe, Queensland, Australia
• Aldegondis Gertrudis Hendriks, Vreeswijk
• Adolf Savelkoul, Susteren († 1944)
• Adrianus Cornelis van Loon, Oisterwijk († 1904)

• Anne Marie Vanderwallen (78), Leuven, 3000 België
• Albertus (kind) Haverslag (0), Erve .... Espelo
• Albertje van der Belt (0), Giethoorn {OV}
• Abraham de Visser (0), Axel
• Zwart (0), Ruinerwold, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anthonia (Antona, Tona) Jongman (Jonkman) (89), Hoofdplaat
• Abraham de Visser (0), Axel (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland
• Aleida Johanna VEERBEEK (1), Dorp Dinxperlo, Gelderland, NL
• Ann McCallan (66), Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland
• Anthonia Jongman (89), Hoofdplaat, Zeeland, NL

• 1890 » George Clark, American race car driver († 1978)
• 1892 » Charlie Poole, American country banjo player († 1931)
• 1892 » Johannes Semper, Estonian poet and scholar († 1970)
• 1896 » He Long, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1969)
• 1896 » Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian-American actor († 1964)
• 1899 » Ruth Page, American ballerina and choreographer († 1991)
• 1901 » Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter († 1991)
• 1902 » Johannes Brinkman, Dutch architect, designed the Van Nelle Factory († 1949)
• 1902 » Madeleine Milhaud, French actress and composer († 2008)
• 1903 » Bill Holman, American cartoonist († 1987)

• 1864 » Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)
• 1896 » Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1822)
• 1913 » Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b.1864)
• 1913 » Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882)
• 1924 » William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
• 1931 » James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)
• 1942 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1942 » William Donne, English captain and cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1945 » John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (b. 1857)

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.
• 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.
• June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
• 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.

The temperature on March 22, 1897 was about 12.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.