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• Adriaan Lambrecht Riedijk, Sint-Maartensdijk († 1974)
• Adriana Margaretha Dijs, Apeldoorn, prov. Gelderland († 1980)
• Aike SANDERS († 1981)
• Aalze Liekeles Adema, Smallingerland († 1908)
• Agatha Evers, Blora, Ned. Indie
• Aalze Adema, Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1908)
• Adriaan Pieter van Stolk, Rotterdam Z.H († 1984)
• Agatha Evers, Blora, Rembang
• Adriana Leonarda van Montfoort, Roosendaal en Nispen (Noord-Brabant)
• Adrianus Johannes van Dorresteijn, Soest

• Aloysius Wilhelmus Petrus Elling (42), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Angelina Carolina Craet (0), Sint-Niklaas, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Catharina Johanna Friederica de Rivecourt (72), Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Theodora Koolen (0), Goirle
• Anna Gerdreuta Greschner (62), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Hubertus van Iersel, Diessen
• Arie Antonie Hakkert (6), Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Arie Antonie Hakkert (6), Assen
• Antje Jans Hoekstra (84), Marrum
• Bernardina van Koppen (71), Schipluiden

• 1898 » Irene Dunne, American actress and singer († 1990)
• 1898 » Konstantinos Dovas, Greek general and politician, 156th Prime Minister of Greece († 1973)
• 1899 » Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Welsh preacher and physician († 1981)
• 1900 » Lissy Arna, German film actress († 1964)
• 1901 » Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic, invented the Van de Graaff generator († 1967)
• 1902 » Prince George, Duke of Kent († 1942)
• 1902 » Sidney Hook, American philosopher and author († 1989)
• 1904 » Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1984)
• 1904 » Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author († 1977)
• 1905 » Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster († 1992)

• 1880 » Gaspar Tochman, Polish-American colonel and lawyer (b. 1797)
• 1893 » George C. Magoun, American businessman (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Upendrakishore Ray, Indian painter and composer (b. 1863)
• 1916 » Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Lucien Petit-Breton, French-Argentinian cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1919 » Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1835)
• 1920 » Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)
• 1921 » Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852)
• 1927 » Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1929 » Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France (b. 1838)

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.
• February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
• February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
• March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
• 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.
• July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
• November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.

The temperature on December 20, 1900 was about 3.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.