About the day » Friday July 28, 1899Calender converter

• Agnes Johanna Meijboom, Rijnsburg
• Alice Louf, Leke (B), België († 1983)
• Adrianus Van De Werken, Papendrecht († 1980)
• Andries Johannes van der Linden, Leiden
• Alice Amelberga Ysewyn, Temse
• Akke Koelmans, St. Annaparochie (Het Bildt, Friesland) († 1971)
• Annetje Baarssen († 1963)
• 00 Pieter Euser, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1960)
• Aline de Baere, Maldegem Vlaamse gewest († 1972)
• Annetje BAARSSEN-BARENDS, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1963)

• Antonio Guzmán (70), Paris
• Antoon Stammen (28), Hamont
• Anna Mechelina Keukens, Leuth, NL
• alida (aaltje) bont (35)
• Anthonius Kettenis (12), Leiden
• Adriaan Mieras (65), Sherman, Maurice, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Antoni van der Laken (73), Koudekerke
• Anthonius Harmanus Wiegerinck (79), Arnhem
• Anna Dorothee Mangelsdorf (86), Schönhausen / Elbe
• Arend Houtman (63), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1893 » Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer († 1952)
• 1896 » Barbara La Marr, American actress and screenwriter († 1926)
• 1898 » Lawrence Gray, American actor († 1970)
• 1901 » Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1979)
• 1901 » Rudy Vallée, American actor, singer, and saxophonist († 1986)
• 1902 » Albert Namatjira, Australian painter († 1959)
• 1902 » Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1994)
• 1907 » Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded Tupperware Brands († 1983)
• 1909 » Aenne Burda, German publisher († 2005)
• 1909 » Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet († 1957)

• 1869 » Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
• 1878 » George Law Curry, American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
• 1885 » Moses Montefiore, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (b. 1784)
• 1895 » Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (b. 1803)
• 1930 » Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1930 » John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (b. 1881)
• 1933 » Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th yokozuna (b. 1890)
• 1934 » Louis Tancred, South African cricketer and pilot (b. 1876)
• 1934 » Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1868)
• 1935 » Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871)

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.
• 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.
• March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
• 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 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
• July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
• December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.

The temperature on July 28, 1899 was about 19.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.