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• Adèle, Martha Delaere, Oeselgem, West-Vlaanderen (BE)
• Adolf August Renaat Mekeirle, De Pinte († 1963)
• Aldegonde Jeral, Tongeren, België
• Roozegaarde, Zelhem
• Adrianus Antonius van Bladel, Waalwijk († 1900)
• Adrianus Cornelis van Geest, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Kalkman, Lekkerkerk († 1900)
• Lindeboom († 1900)
• Adrianus Cornelis van Geest, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland († 1977)
• Heintje De Vries, Elburg († 1901)

• Annechien (de) Boer (42), Kloosterveen (Smilde)
• Anna Catharina Roovers (73), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Karstens Westra (50), Surhuizum
• Adrianus Haverkamp (55), Holk, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anne Therese Boonen‏ (85), Geel, België
• Angèle Adélaïde Victoire Binsse de Saint-Victor (84), Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, France
• Albertus Antonius Scheerder (20), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annechien Jannes DE BOER (42), Kloosterveen (Assen) Drenthe Netherlands
• Aart van Schelven (85), Wageningen (85jr)
• Anna Maria Van Empelen (71), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1893 » Edwin Baker, Canadian soldier and educator, co-founded the Canadian National Institute for the Blind († 1968)
• 1896 » Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-English conductor and director († 1971)
• 1897 » Karl Löwith, German philosopher, author, and academic († 1973)
• 1898 » Gracie Fields, English actress and singer († 1979)
• 1899 » Harald Tammer, Estonian journalist and weightlifter († 1942)
• 1900 » Richard Halliburton, American journalist and author († 1939)
• 1901 » Chic Young, American cartoonist († 1973)
• 1901 » Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress († 1991)
• 1902 » Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint, founded Opus Dei († 1975)
• 1902 » Rudolf Bing, American impresario and businessman († 1997)

• 1878 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American-English businessman (b. 1812)
• 1901 » Richard Copley Christie, English lawyer and academic (b. 1830)
• 1908 » Abraham Goldfaden, Russian actor, playwright, and author (b. 1840)
• 1908 » Wilhelm Busch, German poet, illustrator, and painter (b. 1832)
• 1911 » Edvard Rusjan, Italian-Slovene pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1911 » Edwin Arthur Jones, American violinist and composer (b. 1853)
• 1917 » Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist (b. 1853)
• 1918 » Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844)
• 1923 » Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1888)

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.
• January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
• February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
• February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
• May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
• July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
• December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.

The temperature on January 9, 1900 was about 7.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.