About the day » Saturday October 6, 1900Calender converter

• Annigje Bijl, Giethoorn († 1987)
• Anna Emma Elisabeth Zander († 1978)
• Albert Stijfhoorn
• Angelica Croes
• Annigje Bijl, Giethoorn, Overijssel, Nederland († 1987)
• Adrianus Jongeneelen, Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Aaltje Kracht, Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland († 1989)
• Antje Westbroek, Maartensdijk, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1975)
• Alo√Øse C√©lestin MORGEN, Bettendorf (68560, Haut-Rhin, France) († 1952)
• Alberta Carmela Maria Pradelli, Castelvetro

• Anna Maria Smits, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Allie June Carlisle (23)
• Bernardina van Kessel (1), 't Schoor, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth GEURDEN (66), Genk (Limburg) (B)
• Albert Prosper De Landsheer (1), St-Lievens-Houtem (Akte 43 Index akten-geen akte)
• Antonia Lagendijk (1), Vlissingen
• Albertus Romijn (49), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Catrina Schröder (18), Rotterdam
• Alida Pouw (79), Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Alexander Bowen Bridges ''Bowen" (79), Boiling Springs, North Carolina

• 1895 » Caroline Gordon, American author and critic († 1981)
• 1896 » David Howard, American film director († 1941)
• 1897 » Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic († 1991)
• 1900 » Stan Nichols, English cricketer († 1961)
• 1900 » Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist († 1991)
• 1900 » Willy Merkl, German mountaineer († 1934)
• 1901 » Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German-Brazilian zoologist and academic († 1990)
• 1903 » Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1905 » Helen Wills, American tennis player and painter († 1998)
• 1906 » Janet Gaynor, American actress († 1984)

• 1873 » Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1883 » Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
• 1891 » Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
• 1892 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)

• 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 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
• February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
• March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
• June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
• 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.

The temperature on October 6, 1900 was about 13.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.