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• Adrianus Martinus van Alphen, Liempde, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1972)
• Adriana Maria Boffen, Mill en St. Hubert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria De Weerd, Deil, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1903)
• Anna Maria de Weerd, Deil, Gelderland, Nederland († 1903)
• Adriana Magdalena Maria van der Helm, Vrijenban
• Albert Cornelissen, Anna Paulowna, Nederland
• Willebrodus van der Veldt, Haarlem
• Anna Maria de Weerd, Deil West Betuwe (GL) († 1903)
• Antje SNIJDER, Bellingwolde,Bellingwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1997)
• Alida Johanna Ada Bach, Rotterdam

• Albertus Wilhelmus van Mil (60), Katwijk
• Berend Saat Noordijk (78), Blokzijl, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Koeleman (86), Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus Ludovicus Busard (48), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Berend Gerrits Saat Noordijk (78), Blokzijl, Nederland
• Berend Saat Noordijk (78), Blokzijl, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Adelheid Hebbelmann (35), Schwartenberg, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Albertus Antonij Wiecherink (78), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Berend Gerrits Saat Noordijk (78), Blokzijl
• Berend Saat Noordijk (78), Blokzijl

• 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)
• 1897 » Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and academic († 1994)
• 1898 » Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poet and academic († 1993)
• 1898 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter († 1956)
• 1898 » Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter († 1980)
• 1903 » Charles F. Brannock, American inventor and manufacturer († 1992)
• 1905 » Henry Fonda, American actor († 1982)
• 1906 » Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter and educator († 1988)
• 1906 » Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and author († 2001)
• 1906 » Ernie McCormick, Australian cricketer († 1991)

• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
• 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)

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 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
• March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
• April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
• May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
• June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
• 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 May 16, 1900 was about 9.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.