About the day » Monday December 10, 1900Calender converter

• Adele Heinen, Aldekerk (D) († 1983)
• Albertus Versneij, Leiden
• Alfons Hector De Rycke, Ouwegem († 1939)
• Stolk, Krimpen aan de IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Theodorus Swinkels, Helmond († 1966)
• Ernest Swartelé, Koewacht († 1900)
• ADRIANA VAN DER WAAL, RIDDERKERK († 1902)
• Albertus Cornelis der Weduwe, Hulst, Zeeland, Nederland († 1980)
• Adriana Cornelia Goos, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Wilhelmina Geertruida Hendriks, Utrecht, Utrecht, NL († 1900)

• Aart Kompier (85), Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Ada Irene Counts (2), Norton, Wise County, VA
• Anna Rendl (0), Tschatali, Hungary (Csátalja)
• Allegonda Anna Antonia van der Burg (44), Den Haag
• Adriana Margaretha van Dijk (0), Vlissingen
• Aleida Reezigt (0), Wessinge (Doornspijk), Gld, The Netherlands
• Anna Maria Adriana Philomena Van Boxtel (1), Goirle. Noord-Brabant. Nederland
• Bakker (0), Spijk (Bierum)
• Antje Dros (63), Franeker, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hubertus van Iersel (58), Diessen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1891 » Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada († 1969)
• 1896 » Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director († 1948)
• 1903 » Una Merkel, American actress († 1986)
• 1904 » Antonín Novotný, Czechoslovak politician, President of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia († 1975)
• 1906 » Harold Adamson, American lyricist († 1980)
• 1906 » Jules Ladoumègue, French runner († 1973)
• 1907 » Amedeo Nazzari, Italian actor († 1979)
• 1907 » Lucien Laurent, French footballer and coach († 2005)
• 1907 » Rumer Godden, English author and poet († 1998)
• 1908 » Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist († 1992)

• 1896 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 » Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)
• 1911 » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
• 1917 » Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
• 1920 » Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)
• 1922 » Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist and author (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845)
• 1928 » Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and painter (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (b. 1898)
• 1932 » Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1857)

• 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 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.
• April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
• June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
• June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
• October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.

The temperature on December 10, 1900 was about 6.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.