About the day » Monday January 15, 1900Calender converter

• Adrianus Slijp, Maassluis
• Albertus Arnoldus Snelders, Vessem, Wintelre en Knegsel († 1901)
• Kiewiet, Bovensmilde (Smilde)
• Albertus Arnoldus Snelders, Vessem († 1901)
• van Mullem, Moordrecht († 1900)
• Aaltje Kelder, Lemmer († 1985)
• Adriana Timmer, Nieuwe Tonge
• († 1923)
• Albertina Zwakhoven, Bree († 1990)
• Adriana Leijnse, Vlissingen († 1900)

• Aaltje van Bruggen (56), Groningen
• Andries Zijdemans (77), Waddinxveen
• Anna (Johanna) Schrama (Schramade) (75), Lisse
• Aaltina Hendrika Dorenbos (0), Ruinerwold
• Andries Leopold SALLET (80), Westkapelle,West Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Albert Stegeman (77), Zuidlaren
• Akke Jacobs Foekes (91), Ter Idzard
• Aletta Wieser (77), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Schellekens (64), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van der Jagt (84), Zierikzee, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1891 » Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet and translator († 1938)
• 1891 » Ray Chapman, American baseball player († 1920)
• 1893 » Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor († 1951)
• 1895 » Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1896 » Marjorie Bennett, Australian-American actress († 1982)
• 1902 » Nâzım Hikmet, Greek-Turkish author, poet, and playwright († 1963)
• 1902 » Saud of Saudi Arabia († 1969)
• 1903 » Paul A. Dever, American lieutenant and politician, 58th Governor of Massachusetts († 1958)
• 1907 » Janusz Kusociński, Polish runner and soldier († 1940)
• 1908 » Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic († 2003)

• 1876 » Eliza McCardle Johnson, American wife of Andrew Johnson, 18th First Lady of the United States (b. 1810)
• 1885 » Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer and conductor (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Fanny Kemble, English actress (b. 1809)
• 1896 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (b. 1822)
• 1905 » George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1919 » Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)

• 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 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
• March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
• May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
• July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
• July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
• September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

The temperature on January 15, 1900 was about -4.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.