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• aaltje den ouden, lekkerkerk
• Anna Nannis († 1985)
• Angenetha Ariesdr. Souwaa, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
• Aaltje Jongsma, Hemelum († 1971)
• Adam Weil, Kronberg, Hessen, Deutschland
• Adrianus Henricus Geerts, Baarle-Nassau († 1989)
• Alpha Emma Smith († 1984)
• Adriana Maria de GRAAF, Etten-Leur (N.Br. Nl) († 1966)
• Anna Hirdes, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1966)
• Anna Hendrika Bregonje, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1965)

• Arnoldus Welling (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Beimers (63), Het Bildt (FRL)
• Armgard von Veltheim, Berlin (Brandenburg) D
• Aglae Leopoldine Sophia Marie Prinses van Auersperg (87), Heiligenkreuz-im-Lafnitztal (Rabakeresztur), Burgenland
• Albertje Hebels (1), Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Arie Lock (71), Naaldwijk
• Arij Lock (71), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• AGLAJA Leopoldine Sophie Maria von Auersperg (87), Heiligenkreuz
• Adriana (Jantje) van Zuidam (Snijdam) (65), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Antje Berends Kallenkoot (67), Zwollerkerspel, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1891 » Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic († 1951)
• 1892 » Marston Morse, American mathematician and academic († 1977)
• 1893 » George Sisler, American baseball player and scout († 1973)
• 1893 » Walter Baade, German astronomer and author († 1960)
• 1897 » Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic († 1957)
• 1901 » Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse († 1971)
• 1902 » Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York († 1971)
• 1903 » Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1903 » Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar († 1990)
• 1905 » Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat († 2007)

• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
• 1915 » Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
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. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Neeltje
14. Petronella
15. Geertruida
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 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 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
• February 4 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
• June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
• July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
• September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
• October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.

The temperature on March 24, 1899 was about -1.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.