About the day » Saturday October 28, 1899Calender converter

• Aaltien Withaar, Veenoord, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aalbert van de WEERTHOF, Ede
• Agnes Wirth, Utrecht
• Agatha Adriana Risse, Rotterdam
• Abraham de Vuijst, Breskens, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1927)
• Anna Elisabeth Schnelte, Osteresch, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Albert Munnik, Avereest
• Anna Maria Heinsius, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1982)
• Adriana Jozina van Arenthals, Zaamslag Zeeuws-Vlaanderen († 1959)
• Aaltiena ter Haar, Dalen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Dalerveen († 1900)

• Abraham Mieremet (0), Rotterdam
• Antonij Schotman (76), Voorst
• Schipper (0), Beverwijk (NH, NLD)
• Adrianus Schriel (45), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Hollnd, Nederland
• Adrianus van Meel (0), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adriaantje Streefkerk (4), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van den BURG (7), 's Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Guikijnk (76), Hengelo
• Abraham Guijkink (76), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonij Schotman (76), Voorst

• 1893 » Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist († 1970)
• 1896 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator († 1981)
• 1897 » Edith Head, American costume designer († 1981)
• 1897 » Hans Speidel, German general († 1984)
• 1901 » Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet († 1979)
• 1902 » Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer († 1986)
• 1903 » Evelyn Waugh, English journalist, author, and critic († 1966)
• 1903 » John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic († 1995)
• 1904 » George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author († 1986)
• 1905 » Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician († 1984)

• 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
• 1918 » Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)

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.
• January 1 » Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
• January 19 » Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
• January 23 » The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President.
• February 22 » Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
• March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
• November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.

The temperature on October 28, 1899 was about 15.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.