About the day » Monday February 12, 1900Calender converter

• Agnes Bell Hancock, Diamond City, Carteret County, North Carolina († 1965)
• Aaltje Doldersum, Veenoord, Drenthe, Nederland († 1951)
• adrianus WESTERMAN, oud-beijerland
• Adrianus Boezaard, Katwijk († 1987)
• Aaltje Wilhelmina Kreulen, Huizen (Hoogeveen) († 1901)
• Adrianus Johannes (Jos) Maas, Loon op Zand (Kaatsheuvel) († 1976)
• Aagje de Jong, Den Haag
• Adriana Maria Anthonia Wesselman, Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1919)
• Adrianus Winkelman, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Dirks de Jong, Scheveningen

• Aafje WAGENAAR (84), Broek op Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• ?? Scheele (0), Terneuzen
• Andrina Kemkes (0), Everdingen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aalberta van den Ham (14), Nijkerk
• Anna van den Berg (75), Noordwijk
• Abijah Julius "A.J." Ross (61), Dadeville, Dade County, Missouri, United States
• Akke Dik (62), Nijmegen
• Aafje Klaasdr Wagenaar (84), Broek op Langedijk, NH, Nederland
• Amelia Rosalia Deschoemaeker (69), Woumen
• Andries Engelbertus ten Cate (63)

• 1893 » Omar Bradley, American general († 1981)
• 1895 » Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands († 1984)
• 1897 » Charles Groves Wright Anderson, South African-Australian colonel and politician († 1988)
• 1897 » Lincoln LaPaz, American astronomer and academic († 1985)
• 1898 » Wallace Ford, English-American actor and singer († 1966)
• 1900 » Roger J. Traynor, American lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of California († 1983)
• 1902 » William Collier, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1903 » Chick Hafey, American baseball player and manager († 1973)
• 1903 » Jorge Basadre, Peruvian historian († 1980)
• 1904 » Ted Mack, American radio and television host († 1976)

• 1886 » Randolph Caldecott, English-American painter and illustrator (b. 1846)
• 1894 » Hans von Bülow, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1830)
• 1896 » Ambroise Thomas, French composer and academic (b. 1811)
• 1912 » Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician (b. 1841)
• 1915 » Émile Waldteufel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, philosopher, and academic (b. 1831)
• 1929 » Lillie Langtry, English singer and actress (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani-Russian general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense (b. 1855)
• 1935 » Auguste Escoffier, French chef and author (b. 1846)
• 1942 » Eugene Esmonde, Irish-English lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1909)

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 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
• March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
• April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
• June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
• 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 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

The temperature on February 12, 1900 was about -0.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.