About the day » Wednesday January 3, 1900Calender converter

• Alida Jaring, Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Akke Willems Kooistra, Warga, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1926)
• Aleida van Veenen, Emmer-Erfscheidenveen, Emmen
• Alberta Janna Horsman, Lenthe, Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1971)
• Alma Inez Eisenberg, Santa, Barbara, California, Verenigde Staten († 1990)
• Alida Maria Aupers, Amsterdam NL
• Alice Anne Filmer, Faversham, Kent, England († 1971)
• Leontine Maria Van Gremberghe, Koewacht († 1988)
• - Hissink, Nijverdal, Hellendoorn († 1900)
• Albertje Veenstra, Rinsumageest, Friesland, Nederland

• ammerensie van der KRAAN (74), schiedam
• Aaltje Brouwer (70), Zwartebroek
• Aldert Nottelman (33), Den Helder
• Aaltje Sellis (75), Zalk en Veecaten, Nederland
• Aaltje(n) Sellies (Sellis) (75), Zalk, Ov, The Netherlands
• Albert BRAND (0), Dubbeldam
• van Liere (0), Kapelle
• Abiga√´l Henriette van SILFHOUT (45), Wageningen (Gelderland, The Netherlands)
• Adriana Elizabeth van der Giessen (71), Sint-Annaland
• Aaltjen Sellies. (75), Zalk

• 1892 » J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, and philologist († 1973)
• 1894 » ZaSu Pitts, American actress († 1963)
• 1897 » Marion Davies, American actress and comedian († 1961)
• 1898 » Carlos Keller, Chilean historian, academic, and politician († 1974)
• 1898 » Carolyn Haywood, American author and illustrator († 1990)
• 1900 » Donald J. Russell, American businessman († 1985)
• 1901 » Ngô Đình Diệm, Vietnamese lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam († 1963)
• 1905 » Anna May Wong, American actress († 1961)
• 1905 » Dante Giacosa, Italian engineer († 1996)
• 1907 » Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director († 1986)

• 1875 » Pierre Larousse, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1817)
• 1882 » William Harrison Ainsworth, English author (b. 1805)
• 1895 » James Merritt Ives, American lithographer and businessman, co-founded Currier and Ives (b. 1824)
• 1903 » Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (b. 1837)
• 1911 » Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author and poet (b. 1851)
• 1915 » James Elroy Flecker, English poet, author, and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1916 » Grenville M. Dodge, American general and politician (b. 1831)
• 1922 » Wilhelm Voigt, German criminal (b. 1849)
• 1923 » Jaroslav Hašek, Czech journalist and author (b. 1883)
• 1927 » Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1856)

• 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.
• February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
• June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
• July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
• August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
• September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
• October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

The temperature on January 3, 1900 was about 6.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 99%.