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• Agnes Helena Maria Bouhuis, Middelaar († 1991)
• Alida Jacoba van Kampen, Hilversum, NH, Nederland
• Alberdiena Hoving, Donderen, Vries
• Adriana Pieternella van den Berg, Rotterdam,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Aaltje Gerridina Willemsen, hellendoorn († 1977)
• Afina Hillechiena Talens, Wildervank († 1955)
• Alida Jacoba van Kampen, Hilversum
• Afina Hillechina Talens, Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland († 1955)
• Alfred William Strickland, Chincoteague, Accomac, VA († 1985)
• BAAK, Brink en Orden (Apeldoorn) († 1900)

• Aleida Nas (83), Bemmel
• Aleijda Nas (83), Bemmel, GLD, Nederland
• Anna Catharina KONIJN (1), Wijdewormer (Noord-Holland)
• Aaltje Broers Zandberg (56), Bergum, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertus MOLLINK (62), Heino
• Albertus Johannes Brand (0), Oldenzaal, Overijssel, Netherlands
• alida VERLINDEN (81), dordrecht
• Aaltje de Jonge (1), Tiendeveen, Beilen
• ANNA CATHARINA HOPPE (75), AMSTERDAM
• Adriana de Moor (33), Wissenkerke (Noord-Beveland, ZL) NL

• 1893 » Dorothy Whipple, English novelist († 1966)
• 1893 » Wallace Fard Muhammad, American religious leader, founded the Nation of Islam (disappeared 1934)
• 1896 » Andrei Zhdanov, Ukrainian-Russian civil servant and politician († 1948)
• 1899 » Max Petitpierre, Swiss jurist and politician, 54th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1994)
• 1900 » Fritz Wiessner, German-American mountaineer († 1988)
• 1900 » Halina Konopacka, Polish discus thrower and poet († 1989)
• 1902 » Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit († 1991)
• 1903 » Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1903 » Orde Wingate, English general († 1944)
• 1906 » Madeleine Carroll, English actress († 1987)

• 1864 » Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian jurist and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada East (b. 1807)
• 1883 » Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek lawyer and politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, First Indian women physician (b. 1865)
• 1889 » Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1903 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1906 » Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)
• 1930 » Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)

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.
• January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
• June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
• 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 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
• 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 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

The temperature on February 26, 1900 was about 10.0 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.