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• Aaltje Tuijn, Velsen († 1982)
• Alexis Joseph Antoon ROMBOUTS, Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie († 1978)
• Adriana Vermaat, Tienhoven (a/d Lek) († 1921)
• Adolf Philips, Schoonoord (Sleen), Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Beuter, Eschmarke (gem. Lonneker)
• Albertha Johanna van Os, Erica, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1976)
• Aagtje de Wit, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Alberta Elisabeth Veldhuizen, Den Helder,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Dirks van der Meulen, Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland († 1989)
• Aart Elias, Amsterdam († 1942)

• Adriana van Oers (76), Boxtel
• Adrianus Ouwens (0), IJsselmonde
• Aaltje Pieters Lantinga (69), Den Andel
• Aletta Margaretha Senft (74)
• Aagje JONGERLING, Oudorp, Noord Holland
• Gerrit Sloesarwij (57), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Anna Hanegreefs (88), Lommel, Limburg, België
• Aagje Jongerling (32), Oudorp
• Aagtje Koning (32)
• Albert GrooteHaer (Grootehaar) (73), Vorden (Bronckhorst)

• 1893 » Wally Pipp, American baseball player and journalist († 1965)
• 1899 » Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian poet and author († 1954)
• 1900 » Ruth Clifford, American actress († 1998)
• 1903 » Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian-French author and translator († 1951)
• 1904 » Hans Morgenthau, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic († 1980)
• 1905 » Rózsa Politzer, Hungarian mathematician († 1977)
• 1905 » Ruth Baldwin, British socialite († 1937)
• 1906 » Mary Brian, American actress († 2002)
• 1908 » Bo Yibo, Chinese general and politician, Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China († 2007)
• 1908 » Red Barber, American sportscaster († 1992)

• 1856 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
• 1874 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)
• 1905 » William Bickerton, English-American religious leader, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
• 1912 » Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor and explorer (b. 1876)
• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
• 1934 » Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
• 1934 » Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (b. 1862)
• 1939 » Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (b. 1859)

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.
• April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
• 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 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
• October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.

The temperature on February 17, 1900 was about 4.7 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.