About the day » Thursday September 9, 1897Calender converter

• Ada Frankel, Singapore
• Adriana Dielissen, Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1942)
• Antonetta Geers, Boskoop, Zuid Holland, NL
• Albertje Ham, Weerdingermond Vlagtwedde Westerwolde Groningen Nederland († 1993)
• Albert Buitenhuis, Apeldoorn {GE} († 1981)
• Adriana Vertregt, Middelburg, Zeeland, NL († 1962)
• Anna Cornelia Bruijnseels, Woensdrecht († 1982)
• Adriana Petronella Alida Strijbis, Amsterdam († 1927)
• Alice Maria Henriette Verlaine, (B) Bande
• Annechiene Mulder, Glimmen († 1994)

• Catharina Kerkhove (0), Middelburg
• van Otterloo (0), Rotterdam
• Adriaan Kole (1), Colijnsplaat
• Charles Dominique Dugauquier (77), Maulde
• Clemens Lambertus Joannes Martens (48), 's-Gravenhage
• Alphonsus Jacobus LEMBRECHTS (0), Schilde, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Abraham Cornelis Hagendoorn (76)
• Berendiene Ganzekuile (67), Lemele (Ommen Ambt), Ov, The Netherlands
• Christina Johanna van Van Hilst (0), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolina van GELDER (38), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1894 » Arthur Freed, American composer and producer († 1973)
• 1894 » Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer and soldier († 1976)
• 1894 » Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian trade union leader and politician, 14th Canadian Minister of Labour († 1950)
• 1898 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager († 1973)
• 1899 » Bruno E. Jacob, American academic, founded the National Forensic League († 1979)
• 1899 » Neil Hamilton, American stage, film and television actor († 1984)
• 1899 » Waite Hoyt, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1984)
• 1900 » James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1903 » Edward Upward, English author († 2009)
• 1903 » Lev Shankovsky, Ukrainian military historian († 1995)

• 1891 » Jules Grévy, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (b. 1813)
• 1893 » Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (b. 1807)
• 1898 » Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (b. 1842)
• 1901 » Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (b. 1864)
• 1907 » Ernest Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
• 1909 » E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1848)
• 1910 » Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, American lawyer and politician, United States Solicitor General (b. 1859)
• 1915 » Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded Spalding (b. 1850)
• 1934 » Roger Fry, English painter and critic (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

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 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
• April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
• 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 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 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.

The temperature on September 9, 1897 was about 15.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.