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• Aart ENTHOVEN, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1901)
• Adriana Jans van Verk, Puttershoek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Vos, Rijnsburg († 1926)
• Aartje Oberink, Voorthuizen
• Aart Boon, Beusichem († 1899)
• (Stillborn) DE ROO, Obergum (Winsum) Groningen Netherlands († 1898)
• Adriana Van Melsen, Haarlem Noord-Holland Nederland († 1900)
• Aafje Hille, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Aarts, Alkmaar
• van der Graaf, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1898)

• Antonia (Tonia) van Tricht (75), Tiel (GL)
• Gerardus Stefanus Bruining (54)
• Andries Van Winssen (62), Druten, Nederland
• Adriana Wouters (37), rotterdam, Nederland
• Aart Kieft (25), Putten
• Adriaan van der Velden (74), Vught, Nederland
• ANTONIA VAN TRICHT (74), Tiel
• Adriana Prinsen (49), Hilvarenbeek
• Amelius Adolphus Plasschaert (56), Westdorpe, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaan Adrianus Aerts (83), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1892 » Mahadev Desai, Indian author and activist († 1942)
• 1892 » Manuel Roxas, Filipino lawyer and politician, 5th President of the Philippines († 1948)
• 1893 » Mordechai Frizis, Greek colonel († 1940)
• 1894 » Edward Joseph Hunkeler, American clergyman († 1970)
• 1894 » Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician († 1974)
• 1895 » J. Edgar Hoover, American law enforcement official; 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation († 1972)
• 1900 » Chiune Sugihara, Japanese soldier and diplomat († 1986)
• 1900 » Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor († 1990)
• 1902 » Buster Nupen, Norwegian-South African cricketer and lawyer († 1977)
• 1902 » Hans von Dohnányi, German jurist and political dissident († 1945)

• 1862 » Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
• 1881 » Louis Auguste Blanqui, French activist (b. 1805)
• 1892 » Roswell B. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 25th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1894 » Heinrich Hertz, German physicist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1896 » Alfred Ely Beach, American publisher and lawyer, created the Beach Pneumatic Transit (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Hugh Nelson, Scottish-Australian farmer and politician, 11th Premier of Queensland (b. 1833)
• 1918 » William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet and author (b. 1858)
• 1921 » Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Mustafa Necati, Turkish civil servant and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)

• 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.
• January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
• August 11 » Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
• August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
• September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
• December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

The temperature on January 1, 1898 was about 5.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.