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• Ana de Oliveira Dias, Bofete, São Paulo, Brasil († 1974)
• Anna Leontina (Plompen) Van den Wijngaert, Wilmarsdonk
• Aldert Pieters Boonstra, Oenkerk, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1964)
• Aimee Louise BETTMAN, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1990)
• Aldert Boonstra, Tietjerksteradeel (Tietjerksteradeel) (Friesland)
• Anna Jans Ammerlaan, Zoeterwoude († 1973)
• Albert Stanley John Wallis, Taree, New South Wales, Australia († 1966)
• Aiziena Luten, Uffelte
• Adriaan van der Staal, Vlissingen († 1901)
• Allegonda van Wijchen, Huisseling, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)

• Aartje Stehouwer (6), Zwijndrecht, Nederland
• Anthony Frederik van der Loeff (97), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Walet (56), Rotterdam
• Albert van Heinsberg (56), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Jan van Huizen (1), Deventer
• Ernest Swartelé (0), Koewacht
• Aalt Klaasen van Gelder (77), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andries van Dommelen (75), Nieuwkuijk
• Auguste Crstiane Meiling (48), Berlin, Germany
• Anthonia Catharina van Zuijlen (16), Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1892 » Don Barclay, American actor and illustrator († 1975)
• 1893 » Mao Zedong, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Communist Party of China († 1976)
• 1894 » Jean Toomer, American author and poet († 1967)
• 1900 » Evelyn Bark, leading member of the British Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG († 1993)
• 1901 » Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author († 1941)
• 1902 » Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter and sculptor († 1980)
• 1903 » Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor († 1995)
• 1904 » Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author († 1980)
• 1905 » William Loeb III, American publisher († 1981)
• 1907 » Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician († 1998)

• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)

• 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.
• 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.
• August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
• September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
• December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.

The temperature on December 26, 1900 was about 5.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.