About the day » Tuesday October 23, 1900Calender converter

• Anna Elisabeth Van Herck, Lier, België
• Adrianus van Dam, Moordrecht, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Abeltje Speelman, Nieuw-Beerta, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaan van der Velden, Buren († 1923)
• van Hilten, Rotterdam († 1900)
• Adriaan Diederik van Buuren, Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1975)
• Aaltje Bartelds, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Anna Nortier, Rotterdam
• Adriana Anna Nortier, Rotterdam
• Adriana de Hoon, Ginneken en Bavel, Breda († 1925)

• Anthonia Grolling, Putten
• Arnoldus Maria Beukers (33), Schiedam
• Alfred George Carlisle (72), Charleston, Mississippi, Missouri, United States
• Celina Sadones (69), Geraardsbergen, OVld, Be
• Anthonia van Grol (76), Putten
• Albertus Jacquemyn (65), Zichem
• Berendina Maria WILLEMSEN (0)
• Anna Bleecke (0), Schiedam
• Allebartus van Weeteringen (66), Deventer
• Antje Telkamp (54), Termunten

• 1896 » André Lévêque, French soldier and engineer († 1930)
• 1896 » Lilyan Tashman, American actress († 1934)
• 1897 » John Baker, English air marshal († 1978)
• 1897 » Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, Spanish writer († 1975)
• 1899 » Bernt Balchen, Norwegian aviator († 1973)
• 1900 » Douglas Jardine, Indian-English cricketer and lawyer († 1958)
• 1902 » Luther Evans, American political scientist and politician († 1981)
• 1902 » Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, Austrian engineer († 1982)
• 1904 » Harvey Penick, American golfer and coach († 1995)
• 1905 » Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)

• 1867 » Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (b. 1791)
• 1869 » Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
• 1872 » Théophile Gautier, French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811)
• 1885 » Charles S. West, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (b. 1829)
• 1893 » Alexander of Battenberg (b. 1857)
• 1910 » Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853)
• 1915 » W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
• 1917 » Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
• 1921 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)

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.
• January 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
• 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.
• May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
• 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.
• August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

The temperature on October 23, 1900 was about 10.4 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.