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• Andries Akkerman, Veenwouden, Dantumadeel, Nederland († 1973)
• Antina Everdina Jansdr. Steenhuis, Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland († 1985)
• Adrianus de Wit, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Anje Godlieb, Farmsum, Groningen, Nederland († 1900)
• Angela Hoppe, Walchum, Emsland
• Alphonse Marie Ernest Hubert Hustinx, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Albert Albertus Schaapman, Hasselt gem. Zwartewaterland Ov. NL († 1901)
• Anna Maria Aegten, Bocholt (B) († 1938)
• Aloysius Gerardus Snellen, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1970)
• Alphonse Louis Marie Antoine Hubert Hustinx, Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland († 1972)

• Albert van 't Goor (0), Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey
• August Glatz (0), Ottersheim Dtsl
• Anna Martha Wenzel (69), Tamaqua, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Arend Eising (82), Noordsleen (Sleen)
• Barbara Arnold (76), Holton, Kansas, Verenigde Staten
• Barendina van de Weerdhof (0), Ede, Nederland
• Baby Dawson (0), Washington, District of Columbia, Verenigde Staten
• Alphons Karel Senden (0), Vaals
• Agatha Bertholee (77), Haarlem
• Ambrose Alliston Morley (74), New Troy, Berrien, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1891 » Irene Rich, American actress († 1988)
• 1893 » Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle († 1971)
• 1895 » Mike Gazella, American baseball player and manager († 1978)
• 1899 » Piero Dusio, Italian footballer, businessman and race car driver († 1975)
• 1900 » Gerald Marks, American composer († 1997)
• 1902 » Arna Bontemps, American librarian, author, and poet († 1973)
• 1902 » Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic († 1987)
• 1904 » Wilfred Pickles, English actor and radio host († 1978)
• 1905 » Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian footballer and manager († 1983)
• 1905 » Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter († 1987)

• 1882 » Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher and author (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Samuel Freeman Miller, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1816)
• 1904 » Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (b. 1870)
• 1905 » Henry Irving, English actor and manager (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1849)
• 1911 » Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian social worker, author, and educator (b. 1867)
• 1917 » Florence La Badie, American actress (b. 1888)
• 1919 » Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (b. 1865)
• 1930 » T. Alexander Harrison, American painter and educator (b. 1853)

• 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.
• March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
• March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
• May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
• August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

The temperature on October 13, 1900 was about 11.5 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.