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• Aaltje van den Pol, Soest
• Adrianus van Sundert, Etten-Leur († 1995)
• Achille Remi Dieusart, Wervik
• Aart Seepers, Heerewaarden, Gelderland, Nederland († 1953)
• Aaltje (Alie) Schonewille, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1976)
• Adrianus Oskam, Bergambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Adrianus Marinus den Boer, Zierikzee († 1997)
• Adrianus Oskam, Bergambacht († 1966)
• Adrianus Johannes Rijnders, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1978)
• Aagtje de Bree, Broek op L'dijk († 1988)

• Catharina van de Wagen (75), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Adam Ruurds IJsselstein (4), Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharina van de Wage (75), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Bastienne den Exter (88), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Marie NUSSBAUM (77), Bourbach-le-Haut, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Adriana van Roosendaal (77), Alphen en Riel
• Christiaan Henricus Damen (0), Voorhout, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Bastiana den Exter (88), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Theodorus Johannes Siepenkot (61), Sloten,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annetta Wilhelmina Petronella Dieterich (70), Rotterdam

• 1898 » Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum († 1990)
• 1898 » Carl Johnson, American long jumper († 1932)
• 1898 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge († 1967)
• 1898 » John McLaughlin, American painter and translator († 1976)
• 1901 » Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host († 1986)
• 1901 » Regina M. Anderson, Multiracial playwright and librarian († 1993)
• 1901 » Sam Jaffe, American film producer and agent († 2000)
• 1901 » Suzanne Lilar, Belgian author and playwright († 1992)
• 1902 » Earl Averill, American baseball player († 1983)
• 1902 » Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-American architect and academic, designed the Ameritrust Tower († 1981)

• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)

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 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
• February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
• March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
• May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
• 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.
• August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

The temperature on May 21, 1900 was about 12.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%.