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• Pelle, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Dijk, Schiedam
• Albertus Jacobus Spann, Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1973)
• Alida Margaretha de Man, Maarssen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1996)
• * de Raaf, Weerdingerveen (Emmen) († 1899)
• Adriaan Jansz Ploeg, Broek op Langedijk, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• van Rosmalen, Tiel († 1899)
• Anna Maria ter Haar, Zenderen, Borne, Overijssel, Nederland
• "Esther" Andrée Stéphanie Feyerick, Gand, Belgique († 1973)
• Aartje Hanskamp, Apeldoorn († 1961)

• Annetje Stolk (68), Rockanje Z.H
• Annetje Kornelisd Stolk (68), Rockanje, Westvoorne, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aafke Bovenhuis (84), slochteren
• Aaltje Karsten (24), Nijeveen
• Adriaan Schipper (42), 's-Heer Arendkerke, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Stegemann (48), Delft,Delft,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Albert de Graaf (1), Oranjedorp (Emmen)
• Anna Maria Branten (67), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus VIS (79), Nieuwerkerk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anthonius De Lange (40), Ouder-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1895 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal († 1970)
• 1897 » Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher († 1954)
• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1899 » Gaylord DuBois, American author and poet († 1993)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)
• 1900 » Maria Zubreeva, Soviet painter, graphic artist, and designer († 1991)
• 1901 » Preston Foster, American actor († 1970)
• 1902 » Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss († 1976)
• 1902 » Fernand Braudel, French historian and academic († 1985)

• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)

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 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
• April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
• July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
• 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.
• November 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
• December 2 » Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.

The temperature on August 24, 1899 was about 13.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 99%.