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• Adrianus van Brussel († 1977)
• ADRIANUS LEONARDUS MARINUS MAAT, Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Doorakkers
• Adrianus Cornelis Bruijnes, Vreeswijk
• Aaltje van Lohuizen, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1976)
• Aartje van Lohuizen, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1975)
• Alfons Gielen, Rukkelingen-Loon, België († 1954)
• van Bronkhorst, Rhenen († 1900)
• Albert Frank Pfeffer, Seymour, Champaign, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1965)
• Adriana Francoise Manz

• Anna Arnolda Josephina Kolen (1), Tilburg
• Adrianus Johannes MELIEF (71), Delft
• Arie Buijs (2), Weesperkarspel,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Petronella de Bruin (17), Schiedam
• Aitje Nieborg (71), Westerdiep gem.Veendam
• Angelica Chauncey Alston (83)
• Adrianus Tops (58), Teteringen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• AALBERT PLUGGE (70), SCHEVENINGEN (GEMEENTE 'S-GRAVENHAGE)
• Abrahamina Pannekoek (0), Arnhem
• Anna van Dellen (0), Kollum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland

• 1888 » Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician († 1964)
• 1890 » Peder Furubotn, Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (d.1975)
• 1891 » Marquis James, American journalist and author († 1955)
• 1898 » Preston Sturges, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1901 » Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee († 1986)
• 1904 » Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1905 » Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist († 1941)
• 1905 » Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player († 1979)
• 1910 » Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic († 1985)
• 1911 » John Charnley, British orthopedic surgeon († 1982)

• 1866 » Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
• 1877 » Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 » Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
• 1891 » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 » William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
• 1904 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b.1866)
• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
• 1930 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Gerardus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Grietje
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Petronella
14. Neeltje
15. Aaltje
16. Trijntje

• 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 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
• February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
• February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
• April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
• June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
• September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

The temperature on August 29, 1900 was about 22.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.