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• Albertus (III) Zoontjes, Castricum († 1902)
• Akke Wobbes de Jong, Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aafje Nelletje Nentjes, Urk, Nederland
• Aafje NENTJES, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1996)
• Adriana Clasina Van Dongen, Raamsdonksveer, Provincie Noord Brabant Nederland
• Agatha Veldman, Heerhugowaard († 1981)
• Adrianus DEN BOER, 's Gravendeel
• Aafje Nelletje Louwes Nentjes († 1996)
• Adrianus Cornelis Schoenmakers, Gilze en Rijen († 1917)
• Adelaide Affonso, Minas Gerais, Brasil († 1989)

• Vink (0), Herwen en Aerdt
• Anthonij Stolk (66), Schiedam
• Anna Maria Van Dyck (80), Brecht
• Anna Maria van Dijck (80), Brecht, Belgium
• Bart van Donselaar (54), Gouda
• Adriana van der Meer (0), Aarlanderveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonij Stolk (66), Schiedam
• Verweij (0), Beusichem (Buren) (GL)
• Aart Kleijer (1), Putten
• Adriana van Schaik (75), Rotterdam

• 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)

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.
• 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.
• June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
• 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.
• September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
• October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
• December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

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