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• Anna (Anne) Beenen, Oranjewoud († 1972)
• Abel Postema, Gieten Gieterveen
• ALBRECHT ANTOON PEER WILS, Reet († 1983)
• Anna Maria Kruining, Schiedam
• Anna Catharina Joanna Snoekx, Peer
• Hendriks, Herpen († 1900)
• Aafke Raangs SCHULTINGA, Wehe-den Hoorn Groningen Netherlands († 1902)
• ?? Marquart, Rotterdam († 1900)
• Alice Roselle Leahy, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten van Amerika († 1992)
• ? Schonewille, Hollandscheveld († 1900)

• Auwtje Hendriks Tammeling (79), Schildwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Sebilla Enwegen (70), Schinnen (Schinnen) (Limburg)
• Antoinette (Maria Anthonetta) Yarzagaray (67)
• Agnès van Eyll (18), Leignon, Namur, Belgique
• Augustinus Pets (77), Burgerlijk Hospitaal, Kerkstraat 93, Dendermonde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen
• August DECOCK, Knokke,8300,West Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Bernard van Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach (22), Eisenach
• Hendriks (0), Herpen
• Albert Hettes Hempenius (61), Britsum
• Abner Knee (2), Badger's Quay, Newfoundland

• 1894 » Edgar Krahn, Estonian mathematician and academic († 1961)
• 1895 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan († 1951)
• 1896 » Ted Healy, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1937)
• 1899 » Ernest Haycox, American author († 1950)
• 1900 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer († 1966)
• 1903 » Pierre Veyron, French race car driver († 1970)
• 1903 » Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1904 » A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician († 1977)
• 1904 » Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-English physicist and academic († 1979)
• 1906 » S. D. Burman, Indian composer and singer († 1975)

• 1864 » Rose O'Neal Greenhow, American spy (b. 1817)
• 1878 » Mindon Min, Burmese king (b. 1808)
• 1885 » John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (b. 1799)
• 1901 » Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan emir (b. 1844)
• 1913 » Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1827)
• 1929 » Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (b. 1861)
• 1940 » Chiungtze C. Tsen, Chinese mathematician (b. 1898)
• 1942 » Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1884)
• 1950 » Faik Ali Ozansoy, Turkish poet, educator, and politician (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Peter McWilliam, Scottish-English footballer and manager (b. 1878)

• 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 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
• February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
• February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
• May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
• 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.
• July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.

The temperature on October 1, 1900 was about 14.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.