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• Aartje van den Berg, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1974)
• Antje de ROO, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1988)
• van den Brink, Putten, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1989)
• Aagje Witvliet, Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• Anne Olive Boyd, Perth County, Perth County, Ontario, Canada († 1986)
• Smit, Haarlem, Gemeente Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1900)
• Adelaide Maria Huberta Bevers, Rotterdam
• adrianus anraat, rotterdam
• Albertus Antonius Balk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1929)
• Anna Maria Crooij, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Catharina Petronella PRETORIUS (45), Reitz
• Bastiaan de Blank (50), Amsterdam
• Adrianus van Schip (60), Breukelen-Nijenrode, Utrecht, NL
• Catharina du Pon (73), Haarlem
• Adrianus van 't Schip (60), Breukelen-Nijenrode, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Barbara Denoo, Gits
• Aafje Kamer (38), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Age Haadsma (28), falkenstein (d)
• Albert Ballast (48), Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Theodorus Hermans (55), Schinveld, Limburg, Nederland

• 1894 » Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor († 1979)
• 1897 » Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway († 1987)
• 1898 » Ariel Durant, American historian and author († 1981)
• 1899 » Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1987)
• 1900 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist († 1979)
• 1901 » Hildrus Poindexter, American bacteriologist († 1987)
• 1901 » John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist († 1971)
• 1902 » David O. Selznick, American director and producer († 1965)
• 1903 » Otto Bradfisch, German economist, jurist, and SS officer († 1994)
• 1905 » Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player († 1972)

• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)
• 1945 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (b. 1883)

• 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 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
• January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
• 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.
• February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
• March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
• July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

The temperature on May 10, 1900 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%.