About the day » Saturday December 22, 1900Calender converter

• Abraham Jan Kruik, Oostvoorne, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alice D Varnum **, Alexander, Washington, Maine, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Adrianus Johannes Mommers, Tilburg
• Adrianus Martinus van NIELE, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1979)
• Albert Frederick EYERS, Twickenham, Middlesex, England († 1971)
• Adam Caspars MUNSTERMAN, Leeuwarderadeel Friesland Netherlands († 1969)
• Adam Caspers Munsterman, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Martinus van Niele, Amsterdam,- († 1979)
• Aaltje Prikken *, Steenwijk
• Agnes Healy Rudolph, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1994)

• Allerdina Katharina Venema (70), Glimmen, Groningen, Nederland, Nederland
• bartholomeus nagtegaal (64), Barwoutswaarder
• Antonia (Teunisje) Pieters Schol (75), EaZ
• Catharine Bascom (61), Indiana, United States
• Blondina Hemelaere (77), Zwevezele
• Adriaan Kraker de (74), Aardenburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Dries (74), Essen
• Hamers (0), Waspik
• Antonius van Asten (66), Heeze
• Annie Ruth (78)

• 1892 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer († 1929)
• 1898 » Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician († 1974)
• 1899 » Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director († 1963)
• 1900 » Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter († 1973)
• 1901 » Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor and composer († 1980)
• 1903 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1905 » Kenneth Rexroth, American poet, translator, and academic († 1982)
• 1905 » Pierre Brasseur, French-Italian actor and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1905 » Pierre Levegh, French ice hockey player and race car driver († 1955)
• 1907 » Peggy Ashcroft, English actress († 1991)

• 1870 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836)
• 1880 » George Eliot, English novelist and poet (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)
• 1899 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
• 1902 » Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)
• 1918 » Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (b. 1864)
• 1925 » Amelie Beese, German pilot and engineer (b. 1886)

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 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 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• 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.
• July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
• July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

The temperature on December 22, 1900 was about 1.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.