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• Adrianus Arnoldus Willemsen, Arnhem († 1975)
• * Cornelis Uittenbogaard, Nieuwland († 1995)
• Anna Catharina van Oijen, Vlijmen
• Alida LENOIR, Amsterdam († 1989)
• Ada R Edwards, Smith County, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1986)
• Antje de Jong, Murmerwoude, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1968)
• Andre Gustaaf (Andre) Hornung, Batavia (Ned. Indië) († 1943)
• Anton "Anthony" Szymanski, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Aaltje van Drie, Putten
• Alle Kornelis Welling, Oudega, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1987)

• (2), Groningen
• Anna Catharina Hubertina Geurts (48), Ohé en Laak, Limburg, Nederland
• Alida Christina Delwell (39), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Aalbert (Albert) Loois (78), Het Loo (Apeldoorn)
• Caroline Crout (56), Concord, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States of America
• Anne Maria Geerts (77), Meer, Belgium
• Bernard Janssen (81), Brummen
• Caroline Julia Louise OVERHOFF (67), Laer near Bochum (D) 67y9m
• Alida Christina Delwell (39), Rotterdam
• (Louise Susanna) Djikem, Soerakarta

• 1896 » Yip Harburg, American composer († 1981)
• 1900 » Marie Byles, Australian solicitor († 1979)
• 1902 » Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer († 1924)
• 1902 » Maria Maksakova Sr., Russian soprano († 1974)
• 1904 » Hirsch Jacobs, American horse trainer († 1970)
• 1904 » John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1905 » Erwin Keller, German field hockey player († 1971)
• 1905 » Helen Joseph, English-South African activist († 1992)
• 1905 » Joachim Büchner, German sprinter and graphic designer († 1978)
• 1906 » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator († 1974)

• 1860 » István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
• 1861 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

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 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
• March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
• May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
• June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
• October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.

The temperature on April 8, 1900 was about 5.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.