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• agnes catharina GRANDIA, rotterdam († 1974)
• Adriana VAN REE, Valburg († 1973)
• Alida Theodora Oosterveer, Wassenaar
• Adriana Heikoop, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Boone, Oostkapelle, Walcheren, Zeeland, NL († 1990)
• Albert Hertgers, Apeldoorn
• Andries Lampe, Steenwijk († 1962)
• Adriana Ree van, Andelst gemeente Valburg († 1973)
• Aagje van der Jagt, Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Anthonia van Westbroek, Leiden († 1976)

• Anna Catharina van Oevelen (81), Woensdrecht
• antje jans rus (67), terschelling
• Alberdina Wezenberg (79), IJsselmuiden
• Alberdina Weesenberg (79), IJsselmuiden
• Abraham Morris (65), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Antonette Doll (48), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Abraham van den TOL (79), Klaaswaal
• Arien Hand (65), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Kocx (17), Breda
• Abraham van den Tol (78), Klaaswaal

• 1895 » Abigail Mejia, Dominican feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator († 1941)
• 1895 » Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker player († 1980)
• 1896 » Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1898 » Harry Edward, Guyanese-English sprinter († 1973)
• 1901 » Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal († 1986)
• 1901 » Joe Davis, English snooker player († 1978)
• 1901 » René Pleven, French businessman and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1993)
• 1902 » Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist († 2002)
• 1903 » John Williams, English-American actor († 1983)
• 1904 » Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator († 1948)

• 1861 » Sylvester Jordan, Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792)
• 1865 » Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
• 1888 » Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (b. 1822)
• 1889 » Father Damien, Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)
• 1898 » Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, New Zealand commander and politician
• 1912 » Victims of the Titanic disaster:
• 1917 » János Murkovics, Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)
• 1927 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1938 » César Vallejo, Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1942 » Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)

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 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
• February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
• February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort 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.
• May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
• June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.

The temperature on April 15, 1900 was about 15.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.