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• Allegonda Maria Marien, Bladel († 1910)
• Alberdina Geertruida Pusters, Zutphen († 1901)
• Allegonda Zetten van, Tiel († 1918)
• Adriana van Leeuwen, Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Geertruida Pusters, Zutphen († 1901)
• Ada Wilhelmina van Loon, Doorn, Utrecht, Netherlands
• ( 7 ) Marguerite Marie VALLEY, Montbéliard, 25200, Franche-Comté, FRANCE († 1979)
• Adriana Heijth, Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL († 1991)
• Albert Otten, South Dakota († 1962)
• Aagje~Hendriks Visser, Snits

• Adriaan Oomens (65), Oosterhout, Nederland
• Albert Cornelis Zeverboom (73), Gouda
• Adrian Balthasar Corneille Chabot (78)
• Anna Catharina Blijdenstein (62)
• Anna Maria van Beurden (82), Tilburg
• Antje Smit (1), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Heeswijk (0), Nistelrode, Noord-Brabant
• Arie Bot (77), branderburgerland (duitsland)
• Adriana Johanna van der Pluijm (0), Dussen, Altena, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Blijdenstein (62), Bern, Zwitserland

• 1891 » Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican-American soldier († 2007)
• 1892 » Charles Vanel, French actor and director († 1989)
• 1894 » Christian Schad, German painter († 1982)
• 1895 » Blossom Rock, American actress († 1978)
• 1897 » Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Scottish soldier and peer († 1966)
• 1902 » Angel Karaliychev, Bulgarian author († 1972)
• 1903 » Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor († 1984)
• 1904 » Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1984)
• 1905 » Bipin Gupta, Indian actor and producer († 1981)
• 1906 » Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer († 1995)

• 1867 » Juan Álvarez, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1790)
• 1870 » Ma Xinyi, Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (b. 1821)
• 1888 » James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825)
• 1905 » Alexander von Oettingen, Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827)
• 1910 » Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)
• 1935 » John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
• 1940 » Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1940 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (b. 1879)

• 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 23 » The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President.
• February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
• May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
• May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
• December 2 » Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.

The temperature on August 21, 1899 was about 14.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.