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• Alberdina Gezina Heersping, Windeweer
• Abram Suurbier, Amsterdam († 1974)
• Adrianus Vermeer, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1975)
• Abram Suurbier, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1974)
• Albertus van der Wolde, Rolde (DR, NLD) († 1982)
• Rothuis, Nijmegen Gld. NL († 1900)
• Achiel Juliaan CASTELEYN, Rumbeke († 1981)
• Aaltje Johannes Drost, Ferwerd († 1969)
• Adolf Fredrik Tjaden, Amsterdam
• *Maria Mechelina Elisabeth van Dommelen, Maarssen, Utrecht, NL († 1903)

• Anna Gertrudis Poulssen (Paulissen) (28), Kinrooi (B)
• Anna Verton (37), Rotterdam
• Archibald "Archie" Ferguson (72), Yonge Mills, Ontario
• Antje Nigten (88), Alkemade
• Anna, Maria, Geertruda Broekman (56), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria von und zu Liechtenstein (79), Wien, Autriche
• Adrianus van Wingerden (56), Wateringen,-
• Antje van Rijnswouw (64), Leiden
• amélie angélique CHARLIN (54), Jemappes (Belgium) Hainaut
• Andreas Johannes Baptist Nicolaas Nuijten (0), Made en Drimmelen

• 1891 » Ross McLarty, Australian politician, 17th Premier of Western Australia († 1962)
• 1892 » Sayed Darwish, Egyptian singer-songwriter and producer († 1923)
• 1894 » Paul Green, American playwright and academic († 1981)
• 1895 » Lloyd Rees, Australian painter († 1988)
• 1901 » Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor († 1970)
• 1902 » Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer († 1971)
• 1904 » Chaim Gross, Austrian-American sculptor and educator († 1991)
• 1906 » Brigitte Helm, German-Swiss actress († 1996)
• 1907 » Jean Van Houtte, Belgian academic and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Belgium († 1991)
• 1907 » Takeo Miki, Japanese politician, 41st Prime Minister of Japan († 1988)

• 1853 » Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and mathematician (b. 1803)
• 1871 » Robert Chambers, Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (b. 1802)
• 1875 » Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (b. 1832)
• 1917 » Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
• 1926 » Aleksei Brusilov, Georgian-Russian general (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)

• 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.
• February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
• 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.
• April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
• 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.

The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.