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• Adrianus Leendert de ZEEUW, 's-Gravendeel
• Aaltje Lagemaat, Nijkerk
• Agatha Agnes Blom, Rotterdam,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1952)
• adrianus leendert de ZEEUW, 's-gravendeel († 1966)
• Adriana Vermaas, Oud-Beijerland († 1985)
• Adriana van de Kasteele, Roosendaal en Nispen (NL)
• Aldegonda Anna Hendrika Velmans, Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland († 1956)
• Albertje Hindriks SANTING, Barger-Oosterveen (Emmen) Drenthe Netherlands
• Aart Jansen, Putten († 1975)
• Abram van der Horst, Amsterdam († 1980)

• Albertje Woort (77), Urk, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Romijn (75), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Carl Heinrich von WEIZSÄCKER (76), Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland
• Anna Catharina Ludovica DE SCHRIJVER (28), Antwerpen, Provincie Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgie
• Catharina van Bokhoven (81), Vlijmen
• Catharina Maria van den Ende (0), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Zandvoort (66), Rotterdam
• Carrie (Caroline) Melinda Millen Miller Chase (57), Bedford Massachusetts
• Adrianus Marinus de Greeuw (45)
• Catharina van Bokhoven (81), Vlijmen Hedikhuizen

• 1895 » Bert Lahr, American actor († 1967)
• 1895 » István Barta, Hungarian water polo player († 1948)
• 1898 » Jean Borotra, French tennis player († 1994)
• 1898 » Regis Toomey, American actor († 1991)
• 1899 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer († 1980)
• 1902 » Felix Wankel, German engineer († 1988)
• 1904 » Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician († 1999)
• 1904 » Margaret Tafoya, Native American Pueblo potter († 2001)
• 1906 » Art Shires, American baseball player and boxer († 1967)
• 1906 » Chuck Carroll, American football player and lawyer († 2003)

• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903)

• 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 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
• March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
• May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
• July 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
• September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.

The temperature on August 13, 1899 was about 17.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.