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• Alice Gertrude Wynveen, Cedar Grove, Wisconsin († 1982)
• Adrianus Montenij, zwartewaal († 1977)
• Adriaantje van der Ploeg, Oud Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Alberic Vreye, 8020, RUDDERVOORDE, WEST-VLAANDEREN, België († 1985)
• Abraham Hendrikus Bakkers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1941)
• Abraham Hendrikus Bakkers, Rotterdam († 1941)
• Alida Catharina van der Aart, Haarlem, Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Aleida Cornelia Josephina Polman, Stad Almelo († 1959)
• Alberdina Moorman, Bargeroosterveen (Emmen) († 1970)
• Ada McKIBBIN, Benton Township († 1966)

• Aleida HONKOOP (74), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• bartel WILTON (70), rotterdam
• Antonij Wiltink (77), Vaassen
• Anastasie Daigle (49), Madawaska, Aroostook, Maine, Verenigde Staten
• Benedict BRUMLEVE (86), Lengerich,Germany
• August Martin Jakobsen (0), Husvågen, Bø, Nordland, Norge
• Adrianus Bosters (0), Nieuw-Vossemeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Franciscus Beljaars (31), Tilburg
• Antonie van den Berg (75), Houten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Kares (66), Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland

• 1894 » Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1894 » Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and sportscaster († 1968)
• 1895 » André Frédéric Cournand, French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1896 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer († 1940)
• 1898 » Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer († 1990)
• 1898 » Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1899 » William Dobell, Australian painter († 1970)
• 1900 » Ham Fisher, American cartoonist († 1955)
• 1901 » Alexandra Adler, Austrian neurologist and psychologist (d.2001)
• 1902 » Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran († 1989)

• 1863 » William Debenham, English businessman, founded Debenhams (b. 1794)
• 1889 » Charles Leroux, American balloonist and skydiver (b. 1856)
• 1889 » D. H. Hill, American general and academic (b. 1821)
• 1892 » Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American soldier and composer (b. 1829)
• 1896 » Louis Gerhard De Geer, Swedish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1929 » Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai prince (b. 1892)
• 1930 » William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
• 1933 » Alice Muriel Williamson, English author (b. 1869)
• 1933 » Mike Donlin, American baseball player and actor (b. 1878)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Hendrika
7. Elisabeth
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Petronella
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• 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 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 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
• July 7 » US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
• July 8 » The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
• August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
• August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
• September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

The temperature on September 24, 1898 was about 13.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.