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• ? Timmers († 1974)
• Aaltje (Alie) Faber, St Jacobiparochie († 1983)
• Oldegbers, Giethmen, gemeente Ommen († 1900)
• Adrien Omer Joseph Beyaert, Quaëdypre,59380,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,France († 1989)
• Adriana Paulina van der Horst, Kampen
• Anje Neeltje Lok, Rotterdam
• Alfred Antoon Dirks Gaasterland, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina Adriana Muijen, Wageningen († 1973)
• Anna Dieterman, Oostwold, Groningen, Netherlands
• Andreas Schreurs, Sint-Pieter, Limburg, Nederland († 1900)

• Adrianus van Dalen (van Daalen) (92), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Agatha Maria Zwart (0), Krommenie, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Griffioen (0), Odijk
• Oldegbers (0), Giethmen, gemeente Ommen
• Antje Kracht (57), Blijham
• Arend (1) van den Bos (4), Rotterdam
• Alida Elizabeth van Heeringen (8), Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje van den Berg (68), Callantsoog
• Andreas (Andrew) J. Wattengel (81), Niagara, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Catharina GILISSEN (38), Hasselt

• 1895 » Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer († 1966)
• 1895 » Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy († 1944)
• 1896 » Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I († 1964)
• 1900 » August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright († 1987)
• 1903 » Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician († 1993)
• 1903 » Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general († 1946)
• 1903 » John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff-Berry computer († 1995)
• 1903 » Pierre Garbay, French general († 1980)
• 1906 » Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician († 1996)
• 1907 » Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic († 1994)

• 1864 » Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
• 1867 » Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1871 » Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
• 1890 » Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1903 » Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
• 1904 » Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
• 1904 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1910 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)

• 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.
• February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
• May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
• May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
• May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
• June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
• September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

The temperature on October 4, 1900 was about 14.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%.