About the day » Sunday May 13, 1900Calender converter

• Agnes Maria Crolla, Itteren
• Albert Knorren, Smilde († 1904)
• Anna Hartgers, Arnhem
• Albert Knorren, Hijkersmilde, Smilde († 1904)
• Anna Catherina Rours, Susteren, Nederland († 1970)
• Alphonse Oscar Volckerijck, Lokeren, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1900)
• Adriaan van Kooten, Gemeente Haarlemmermeer, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Adolf Mirck, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1965)
• Adriana Johanna Verhoeven, Udenhout († 1992)
• Albert BARROO, Ploegsteert,7782,Hainaut,Wallonie,Belgique († 1978)

• Arendje van Zandwijk (80), Oudeschild
• "Jacqueline" Marie Françoise de Pret Roose de Calesberg (32), château du Bois-Seigneur-Isaac, Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgique
• Antke de Boer (76), Hollum (Ameland)
• Anna Petronella Menks (73), Haarlem
• Adriana van Iersel (56), Helvoirt
• Albertus Olijslagers (52), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus SPRONK (70), Dieren
• Adriana Apolonia Buijser (82), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Gerardus Snel (43), Gouda
• Arend Alberts Koster (84), Hollandscheveld

• 1894 » Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland († 1972)
• 1895 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist, parapsychologist, and author († 1964)
• 1901 » Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet and telegrapher († 1975)
• 1904 » Louis Duffus, Australian-South African cricketer and journalist († 1984)
• 1905 » Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th President of India († 1977)
• 1907 » Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright († 1989)
• 1908 » Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator († 1996)
• 1909 » Ken Darby, American composer and conductor († 1992)
• 1911 » Maxine Sullivan, American singer and actress († 1987)
• 1911 » Robert Middleton, American actor († 1977)

• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

• 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.
• April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
• June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
• June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
• 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.
• October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

The temperature on May 13, 1900 was about 11.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%.