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• Aime Petrus VAN STEENBERGHE, Sint-Lievens-Esse, 9550, Flandre Orientale, Flandre, BELGIQUE
• Albertus Pieter Dousma, Paterswolde, gem. Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Nuijten, Fijnaart, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaldrik Hendrik Udema, Oostwold, Midwolda, Oldambt, Groningen, Nederland
• A. Catharina Vanzwijgenhoven, Mechelen-Bovelingen, België († 1972)
• Alexander Liddell Todd ?****, Auchinstarry, Cumbernauld, Scotland († 1982)
• Alfons Vrancken, Vorst Kempen, 2430, België
• Aart Renes, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Boot, Hellevoetsluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1954)
• , Douglas County, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 1973)

• Aartje de Fouw (54), Wolphaartsdijk
• Abraham Johannes Kors (57), Leiden
• Albert te Velthuis (82), Lemperhoek (Borculo)
• Adriaan Gerrit(S) Verhagen (80), Loon op Zand
• Aaltjen Klein Langenhorst (78), Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertina Sara Gerhardina Zaalberg (69), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Gerarda Catharina van Vuuren (74), Gouda
• (2) van Zundert, Rotterdam
• (89), Uden
• Aleida Maria Daatselaar (74), Hoogland

• 1895 » Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat († 1948)
• 1896 » Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1896 » Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and engineer († 1982)
• 1897 » Theodore Plucknett, English legal historian († 1965)
• 1900 » Una Ledingham, British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy († 1965)
• 1901 » Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society († 1939)
• 1902 » Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer († 2007)
• 1903 » Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest verified living person
• 1904 » Walter Heitler, German physicist and chemist († 1981)
• 1905 » Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter († 1991)

• 1861 » Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1920 » Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
• 1939 » Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1898)

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 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.
• February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
• March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
• June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
• 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.
• October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.

The temperature on January 2, 1900 was about 8.0 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.