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• Aaltje van Steenis, Neerijnen
• Albertus Wolff, porweoredjo, residentie Bagelen
• Buser († 1900)
• Albert Charles (Sonny Bower) Bauer, Fulham, London. England († 1989)
• Jannetje Ruurs, Amsterdam
• Alida Voorend, Breukelen-Nijenrode, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Schutte, Arnhem
• Alida Bos, Castricum († 1967)
• Age de Haan, Idskenhuizen, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert van der Laan, Oude Pekela († 1935)

• Adrianus SAARBERG (71), Moerkapelle,2752BA,SOUTH HOLLAND,NETHERLANDS
• Albert Bastiaan (0), Kampen
• Alida Catharina VAN DEN BURG (0), noordwijkerhout, Nederland
• Anthonie Arie van der Pol (0), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Janssen (0), Schalbruch (Du)
• anna barbara smetsers (64), tilburg
• Aaltje Elema (53), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonie Dokman (58), Deventer
• (64), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Castricum (0), Beverwijk

• 1893 » Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist († 1970)
• 1896 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator († 1981)
• 1897 » Edith Head, American costume designer († 1981)
• 1897 » Hans Speidel, German general († 1984)
• 1901 » Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet († 1979)
• 1902 » Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer († 1986)
• 1903 » Evelyn Waugh, English journalist, author, and critic († 1966)
• 1903 » John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic († 1995)
• 1904 » George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author († 1986)
• 1905 » Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician († 1984)

• 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
• 1918 » Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)

• 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 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
• February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
• June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
• August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
• October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.

The temperature on October 28, 1900 was about 7.2 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.