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• Adriana Cornelia SPRUIJT, Zwijndrecht (BE)
• Achille Cyrille Deput, Wervik,8940,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1976)
• Aartje Nellen, Harderwijk († 1992)
• Adriana Johanna KNIKMAN, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Gezina Harberts, Erica (Emmen)
• Anna Louisa Coenraads († 1979)
• Andries Buitenhuis, Apeldoorn
• Anna Gezina (Anne) Harberts, Erica. Drenthe (NL) († 1912)
• Alfred Cornelis Pluym Pluijm, Westdorpe (Zeeland) († 1974)
• Alida van der Aart, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Andries De Boer (1892)
• Anna Reith (0), Großenlüder, Landkreis Fulda, Hessen, Duitsland
• Aagje Jacobse de Niet (90), Scheveningen ('s-Gravenhage)
• Anna Maria Veen (60), Nieuw Helvoet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Vos (0), Bussum
• Catharina Bijland (21), Boskoop
• Anna Katharina Hazeloop (55), Assen
• Anna Cornelia Mauritz (55), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arien Peetoom (46), Spanbroek
• Aafje Bakker, Sijbekarspel

• 1892 » Jaan Kikkas, Estonian weightlifter († 1944)
• 1894 » Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher and academic († 1976)
• 1895 » William Boyd, American actor and producer († 1972)
• 1895 » William Roberts, English soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1898 » Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director († 1936)
• 1898 » Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoe designer, founded Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. († 1960)
• 1899 » Otis Barton, American diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere († 1992)
• 1899 » Theippan Maung Wa, Burmese writer († 1942)
• 1900 » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1902 » Arthur Powell Davies, American minister, author, and activist († 1957)

• 1866 » John McDouall Stuart, Scottish explorer and surveyor (b. 1815)
• 1899 » Antonio Luna, Filipino general (b. 1866)
• 1900 » Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1871)
• 1906 » Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (b. 1842)
• 1910 » O. Henry, American short story writer (b. 1862)
• 1913 » Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (b. 1851)
• 1916 » Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish-born British field marshal and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Rhoda Broughton, Welsh-English author (b. 1840)
• 1921 » Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
• 1921 » Will Crooks, English trade unionist and politician (b. 1852)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
• September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.

The temperature on June 5, 1897 was about 19.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.