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• Adriana Maria Francisca Kloppers, Kethel en Spaland 35
• Alice Jeanette Patterson, PITTSBURGH, PA
• Verstraaten, Bruinisse, Nederland († 1899)
• Ada May Massey, Dunlap, Lyon, Kansas, United States († 1968)
• Maria Margaretha Heesen, Utrecht († 1957)
• Albertus Wallenburg, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Martina van Vliet, Lopik, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Albert Herman Engelken, Saint Benedict, Nemaha County, Kansa († 1987)
• Aleida Johanna Witjes, Gorinchem († 1983)
• Adriana Martina van Vliet, Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland

• Arie Berkhof (55), Maartensdijk
• Aaltje Kaptein (41), Heerjansdam
• Antje Dee (59), Leiden
• Calogero FASCIANA (77), VILLAROSA, Enna, Sicilia, Italia
• Carolus Mergaert, Koekelare,8680,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Antonia VAN DER VEN (0), Made,Drimmelen Municipality,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Adriaan Kerkhof (75), Oosterhout, Noord Brabant
• Anna Maria van WORTEL (72), Bergen Op Zoom,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Annigje (Annegien) Bos (53), Assen
• Anna Isabella van Britsom (66), Temse, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

• 1895 » Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958–1963) († 1982)
• 1896 » Roman Petrovich, Russian prince († 1978)
• 1898 » Eileen Sedgwick, American actress († 1991)
• 1898 » Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator († 1998)
• 1898 » Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet († 1971)
• 1900 » C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor († 1932)
• 1900 » Jean Arthur, American actress († 1991)
• 1900 » Yvor Winters, American critic and poet († 1968)
• 1901 » Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator († 1973)
• 1902 » Irene Ryan, American actress († 1973)

• 1868 » Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
• 1887 » Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
• 1889 » Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
• 1893 » Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
• 1910 » Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
• 1918 » Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
• 1928 » Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
• 1937 » J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)

• 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.
• January 19 » Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
• February 4 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
• February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
• March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
• July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
• 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 October 17, 1899 was about 10.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%.