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• Adriana Johanna Witjes, Bunnik (UT, NLD) († 1949)
• Albertus Remigius DE SPIEGELEER, Barbery France
• Adriana Maria Francken, Warmond († 1899)
• Adrianus Wijnings, Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje van den Bosch, Putten († 1978)
• Alida den Os, Gouda,Gouda,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1953)
• Alberta Wisman, Haskerland († 1901)
• Anna Keil van Eichenthurn, Opava (Troppau), Moravië-Silezië, Tsjechië († 1987)
• Adriana Maria Geerts, Vrachelen, Nederland († 1969)
• Adriana Terreehorst, Leiden († 1900)

• August Josephus Van Pelt (26), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Mensink (0), Deventer
• Anna Wever (0), Berkhout, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Alphons Buijsse (0), Philippine, Sas Van Gent, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Cornelis Jacobus Cannegieter (88)
• Alice Katherine Brooks (79), Pearl Creek, Wyoming, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Johannes van Weelde (44), Tiel
• Alfred Bernard Joseph Amedée Braeckman (65), Temse
• Antje Visser (35), Nes
• Antonio Soares Preto (59), Lapa, Paraná, Brasil

• 1894 » Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1894 » Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and sportscaster († 1968)
• 1895 » André Frédéric Cournand, French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1896 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer († 1940)
• 1898 » Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer († 1990)
• 1898 » Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1899 » William Dobell, Australian painter († 1970)
• 1900 » Ham Fisher, American cartoonist († 1955)
• 1901 » Alexandra Adler, Austrian neurologist and psychologist (d.2001)
• 1902 » Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran († 1989)

• 1863 » William Debenham, English businessman, founded Debenhams (b. 1794)
• 1889 » Charles Leroux, American balloonist and skydiver (b. 1856)
• 1889 » D. H. Hill, American general and academic (b. 1821)
• 1892 » Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American soldier and composer (b. 1829)
• 1896 » Louis Gerhard De Geer, Swedish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1929 » Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai prince (b. 1892)
• 1930 » William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
• 1933 » Alice Muriel Williamson, English author (b. 1869)
• 1933 » Mike Donlin, American baseball player and actor (b. 1878)

• 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 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.
• 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.
• September 13 » Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
• October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
• December 2 » Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.

The temperature on September 24, 1899 was about 10.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.