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• Aaltje van Splunter, Haarlemmermeer, Noord Holland, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Tol
• aimée louisa FONTAINE, Dour (Belgium)
• van Rossem, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolf Jozef Sträter, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 1964)
• Aart Los, Rotterdam
• , Erp († 1900)
• Adriaan Johannes van Buuren, Beesd, Gelderland, Nederland († 1988)
• Albert Douwes Ykema, Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Aart Los, Rotterdam († 1942)

• Aafke Bakker (81), Wirdum (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Anna Genoveva van Dael (72), Westmalle
• Antje Taedes Sibma (1), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• AEelze Jietzes Sinnema (79), Ferweradeel Hallum
• Anna Elisabeth van Kramsta (60), Dresden, Saksen
• Anna Bibo- (40), Heerhugowaard, Nederland
• Anna Sophia Cabot (78), Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Alexander Matheson (59), York, Ontario, Canada
• Anne Therese Hoornaert (82), Ardooie
• Alida Lookers (59), klundert (noord brabant)

• 1888 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian lawyer and poet († 1928)
• 1893 » Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director († 1964)
• 1895 » Louis Calhern, American actor († 1956)
• 1896 » André Breton, French poet and author († 1966)
• 1897 » Alma Rubens, American actress († 1931)
• 1899 » Lucio Fontana, Argentinian-Italian painter and sculptor († 1968)
• 1902 » Kay Boyle, American novelist, short story writer, and educator († 1992)
• 1904 » Elisabeth Welch, American-English singer and actress († 2003)
• 1904 » Havank, Dutch journalist and author († 1964)
• 1911 » Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress († 1979)

• 1887 » Multatuli, Dutch-German author and civil servant (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (b. 1815)
• 1915 » Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian philosopher and politician (b. 1866)
• 1916 » Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1847)
• 1928 » George Howard Earle Jr., American lawyer and businessman (b. 1856)
• 1936 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (b. 1879)
• 1945 » John Basilone, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1916)
• 1951 » André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

• 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.
• January 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
• May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
• May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
• July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
• 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.
• 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 February 19, 1900 was about 7.4 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.