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• Abraham VEFFER, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Aaltje de Boer, Weststellingwerf, Netherlands († 1975)
• Aberdina Heijboer, Nieuwerkerk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1991)
• Abraham Koote, middelharnis (goeree overflakkee) († 1990)
• Aleida Brendeke, Oene (Gem. Epe)
• *Kathleen Myrtle (known as Myrtle) McDONALD, Canterbury, New South Wales. Australia († 1988)
• Adamina Berendina Gunnink, Kampen
• * Gerardus van Empel, Boxtel
• Aaltje Schepers, Oosterhesselen,Drenthe,Niederlande († 1973)
• Alfons O. Yerna, Mettekoven, België († 1971)

• Agnecia Catharina Jacobina Vuijk (46), De Rijp
• Anna Steffens Kiel (89), Nieuwe Pekela
• Antje Witting (76), Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• Aafje Vonk (11), Vlissingen
• Alfred A. Hodges (58), Springville, St. Clair County, AL
• Anna Isabella Dingemans (72), Berendrecht, Provincie Antwerpen
• Anna van Os (72), Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Adrianus van Leijden (77), Drunen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van Bommel (60), Montfoort
• Adrianus Jacobus Kock (71), Zevenbergen

• 1890 » Quincy Wright, American political scientist, historian, and academic († 1970)
• 1895 » Carol Ryrie Brink, American author and playwright († 1981)
• 1898 » Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish-American meteorologist and academic († 1957)
• 1898 » Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral († 1947)
• 1902 » Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author († 2001)
• 1902 » Shen Congwen, Chinese author and educator († 1988)
• 1903 » Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader († 1983)
• 1903 » John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist († 1957)
• 1907 » Ze'ev Ben-Haim, Ukrainian-Israeli linguist and academic († 2013)
• 1908 » Lew Ayres, American actor († 1996)

• 1890 » Dennis Miller Bunker, American painter (b. 1861)
• 1897 » William Corby, American priest and academic (b. 1833)
• 1900 » Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1846)
• 1907 » Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (b. 1812)
• 1913 » Ahmet Mithat Efendi, Turkish journalist and translator (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Eduard Strauss, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1835)
• 1917 » Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1918 » Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet and journalist (b. 1865)
• 1919 » Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1924 » Léon Bakst, Russian painter and costume designer (b. 1866)

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.
• May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
• May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
• July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
• August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
• August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
• September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.

The temperature on December 28, 1900 was about 7.9 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.