About the day » Monday January 1, 1900Calender converter

• Aarnoud Gabrielse, Westkapelle († 1972)
• . van der Klip, Den Haag († 1900)
• . van Deursen, Onbekend († 1900)
• .... Onbekend, Onbekend († 1900)
• Adriaan van den Aker, Vught,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1978)
• Aaltje Abrahams Boon van der, Woubrugge
• .. Onbekend, Alkmaar († 1900)
• . Walraven, Onbekend († 1900)
• . Onbekend, Onbekend († 1960)
• . van der Kraats, Delft / datum onjuist († 1950)

• (1) Gerrit Twisk (24), Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• . Vonk (100), delft
• ? ? (68)
• . Potuyt (100), Den Haag
• Verhoeff (0), Delft
• . Walraven (0), Onbekend
• . van der Riet (100)
• Aafke Albertsd van Aken (85), Poppingawier, fr.nld
• . Storm (0), Delft
• . Wagler (100), onbekend

• 1894 » Edward Joseph Hunkeler, American clergyman († 1970)
• 1894 » Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician († 1974)
• 1895 » J. Edgar Hoover, American law enforcement official; 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation († 1972)
• 1900 » Chiune Sugihara, Japanese soldier and diplomat († 1986)
• 1900 » Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor († 1990)
• 1902 » Buster Nupen, Norwegian-South African cricketer and lawyer († 1977)
• 1902 » Hans von Dohnányi, German jurist and political dissident († 1945)
• 1904 » Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan († 1982)
• 1905 » Stanisław Mazur, Ukrainian-Polish mathematician and theorist († 1981)
• 1906 » Manuel Silos, Filipino filmmaker and actor († 1988)

• 1881 » Louis Auguste Blanqui, French activist (b. 1805)
• 1892 » Roswell B. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 25th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1894 » Heinrich Hertz, German physicist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1896 » Alfred Ely Beach, American publisher and lawyer, created the Beach Pneumatic Transit (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Hugh Nelson, Scottish-Australian farmer and politician, 11th Premier of Queensland (b. 1833)
• 1918 » William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet and author (b. 1858)
• 1921 » Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Mustafa Necati, Turkish civil servant and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (b. 1874)

• 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 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
• February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
• May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
• August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
• September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.
• November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

The temperature on January 1, 1900 was about 3.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.