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• Albert Zoontjes, Castricum († 1902)
• Albertus Tukker, Alkemade, Zuid Holland, NL
• Van Rie, Eede, Nederland
• Adrianus DEN BOER, 's Gravendeel
• Adrianus Cornelis Schoenmakers, Gilze en Rijen († 1917)
• Akke Wobbes de Jong, Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• aaltje 2 van den berg, muhlheim am ruhr (D) († 1990)
• Vink, Herwen en Aerdt († 1900)
• Albert Zoontjes-, Castricum, Nederland († 1902)
• Albert jan Vink, Colmschate († 1982)

• "Christian Victor" Albert Ludwig Ernst Anton von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (33), Pretoria, Afrique du Sud
• Arend (Arendz) van Duijn (85)
• Arend van Duijn (85), Katwijk aan Zee
• Adriana van Schaik (75), Rotterdam
• Alexander Jacobus den Os (0), Delft,Delft,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Barend van Kouterik (62), Baarn
• Anna Wilhelmina Dahnes (61)
• Anna Maria Tilly (50), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonij Stolk (66), Schiedam Z.H
• Anna van den Reek (38), Geldrop

• 1891 » Fanny Brice, American actress and singer († 1951)
• 1897 » Billy Walker, English footballer († 1964)
• 1897 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany († 1945)
• 1898 » Alan Barker, English soldier († 1984)
• 1899 » Akim Tamiroff, Georgian-American actor († 1972)
• 1905 » Henry Green, English author († 1973)
• 1906 » Fredric Brown, American author († 1972)
• 1907 » Edwige Feuillère, French actress († 1998)
• 1910 » A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author († 1989)
• 1913 » Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee († 2014)

• 1877 » Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and KKK leader (b. 1821)
• 1885 » George B. McClellan, American general and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1826)
• 1892 » William Harnett, American painter (b. 1848)
• 1897 » Henry George, American journalist, philosopher, and economist (b. 1839)
• 1901 » Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (b. 1873)
• 1905 » Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (b. 1873)
• 1911 » Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (b. 1847)
• 1916 » John Sebastian Little, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (b. 1851)
• 1918 » Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and composer (b. 1873)
• 1919 » Albert Benjamin Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (b. 1843)

• 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 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
• February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
• April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
• June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
• July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
• July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

The temperature on October 29, 1900 was about 13.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%.