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• Aleide Geertruida Hartman, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Maria de Jong, Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant (Nederland)
• Alfons Desideer Dauwen, Vorst, 1190, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
• Adrianus Roggeveen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Pellegrom, Linschoten († 1897)
• Alida Golverdingen, Gorinchem († 1913)
• Albertus Hendrikus (1) Tiggeler, Enschede († 1898)
• Kortlever, Leerbroek (Zederik), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1897)
• Adriana Maria van DIJK, Willeskop († 1953)
• Alida Maria Sluis, Haarlemmermeer

• Adrianus Cornelis van de Ven (0), Goirle
• Bernardus Daems (76), Meerhout, België
• Aaltje Loman (83), Lienden
• Arie de Groot (80), Sliedrecht
• Anna Catharina Hubertina van Krugten (74), Thorn
• Arnoldus Dassen (67), Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius Hater(d) (27), Berghem
• Anna Schreuder (1), fortasse, Nederland
• Anonyme Malo (0), Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• van Tiggelen (0), Roosendaal

• 1893 » Harold Breen, Australian public servant († 1966)
• 1893 » Joachim von Ribbentrop, German soldier and politician, 14th German Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1946)
• 1895 » Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, academic, and diplomat († 1960)
• 1896 » Hans List, Austrian scientist and businessman, founded the AVL Engineering Company († 1996)
• 1896 » Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist († 1972)
• 1897 » Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter († 1983)
• 1900 » Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet († 1984)
• 1901 » Simon Kuznets, Belarusian-American economist, statistician, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1902 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1905 » Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic († 2012)

• 1863 » Jean Danjou, French captain (b. 1828)
• 1865 » Robert FitzRoy, English admiral, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (b. 1805)
• 1870 » Thomas Cooke, Canadian bishop and missionary (b. 1792)
• 1875 » Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
• 1879 » Emma Smith, American religious leader (b. 1804)
• 1883 » Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)
• 1891 » Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist and author (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (b. 1863)
• 1903 » Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and activist (b. 1831)
• 1910 » Jean Moréas, Greek poet and critic (b. 1856)

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.
• 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 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
• 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.
• December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
• December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

The temperature on April 30, 1897 was about 17.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%.