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• Adrianus Arend Franciscus Wittens, Princenhage († 1981)
• Albert Marinus Kroon, Rotterdam († 1900)
• Adriana Juliana Lagast, Lichtervelde († 1985)
• aldegonda anna maria lucker, tegelen († 1973)
• antje nieuwenhuizen, Leiden-Zuid-Holland-NL († 1971)
• Anne Marie McCabe, 49 Mary Street, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland († 1959)
• Anna Marie Smeets, Vaals, Limburg, Nederland († 1983)
• Albertus Wilbers, Riethoven (gemeente Bergeijk) († 1901)
• Adrianus de Vries, Dokkum († 1944)
• Annechina Nagengast, Onstwedde,Gemeente Stadskanaal,Groningen,Nederland

• Antje Frans (0), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje van den Heuvel (68), Giessendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antony Baselier (78), Bergen op Zoom (Bergen op Zoom) (Noord-Brabant)
• Adriaan DAMEN (1), Hardinxveld
• Alfred Thiriard (50), Reims,51100,Marne,Grand Est, Friesland, Nederland
• Alice Maria VANLERBERGHE (0), Esen, 8600, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Antje van Noort (78), 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Adriaan Dame (1), Hardinxveld
• Arend Jonker (0), Nijbroek (Gem. Voorst))
• Antonij BASELIER (29), Bergen Op Zoom (N. Br. Nl)

• 1895 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader († 1934)
• 1896 » Eric Backman, Swedish runner († 1965)
• 1897 » Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1898 » Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and playwright († 1973)
• 1901 » Henri Sauguet, French composer († 1989)
• 1901 » Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)
• 1902 » Meredith Willson, American playwright and composer († 1984)
• 1904 » Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York Attorney General († 1986)
• 1904 » Shunryū Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator († 1971)
• 1905 » Ruth Alexander, pioneering American pilot († 1930)

• 1867 » Clarkson Stanfield, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1889 » Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)

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.
• January 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
• January 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
• 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 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
• May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
• September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

The temperature on May 18, 1900 was about 11.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.