About the day » Thursday May 17, 1900Calender converter

• Anna A Rave, Bredevoort, Aalten, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1955)
• Anna Catharina ROOZEN, Lommel († 1981)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Caspar Croes, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1901)
• Aloysius Back, São Martinho, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1978)
• Anna Dijkema († 1981)
• Aatje HULSHOFF, Surhuisterveen (Achtkarspelen) Friesland Netherlands († 1993)
• Abraham de Leeuw, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Adrianus Bogaerts, Duizel en Steensel († 1900)
• Adrianus Josephus van Hoek, Gilze en Rijen († 1973)
• Aaltje de Graaf, Apeldoorn († 1924)

• Antonius Arman (44), Veenhuizen
• Abraham de Klerck (29), Apeldoorn (GL)
• Berendina Elisabeth Klein Lenderink (76), Steenderen
• Adriana Vos, Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bauke Bouwsma (79), Hemelumer Oldeferd
• Aafje De Boer (0), Zaandam, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham (Abram Jansz) Bruin (68), Den Helder
• Anna Maria van der Zwet (46), Sassenheim
• Casparus van der Noordt (64), Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• (2) Simon Kruijer (83), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland

• 1893 » Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor and entrepreneur († 1961)
• 1895 » Reinhold Saulmann, Estonian sprinter and bandy player († 1936)
• 1895 » Saul Adler, Belarusian-English captain and parasitologist († 1966)
• 1897 » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1898 » A. J. Casson, Canadian painter († 1992)
• 1899 » Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer († 1979)
• 1901 » Werner Egk, German pianist and composer († 1983)
• 1903 » Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player and manager († 1991)
• 1904 » Marie-Anne Desmarest, French author († 1973)
• 1906 » Zinka Milanov, Croatian-American soprano and educator († 1989)

• 1879 » Asa Packer, American businessman, founded Lehigh University (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Ziya Pasha, Greek author and translator (b. 1826)
• 1886 » John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded the Deere & Company (b. 1804)
• 1888 » Giacomo Zanella, Italian priest and poet (b. 1820)
• 1911 » Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist (b. 1862)
• 1917 » Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (b. 1829)
• 1917 » Clara Ayres, American nurse (b. 1880)
• 1919 » Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist, author, and poet (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Karl Mantzius, Danish actor and director (b. 1860)

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 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
• March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
• May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
• June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
• August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
• December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

The temperature on May 17, 1900 was about 13.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.