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• An Kooi, Hindeloopen, Friesland, Nederland
• harmke de boer, liossens († 1985)
• Adriana Henrica Maria van den Heuvel, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Albert Eudore De Winter, Denderhoutem, Belgium († 1993)
• Adrianus Arie Vis, Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Both, brielle (zuid holland) († 1900)
• Andrew William Fuerst, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio († 1981)
• Alijda Hubertina Schott, den haag
• Adriana Cornelia Bergmans, Elshout
• Adrianus Pieter Huisman, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Antonij Kreijn (Krijn) (65), Zwolle
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• Belia Maria Scherrenburg (2), Ede
• Aaltje Haverkamp (89), breda
• Christiaan van der Velde (39), Smilde
• Adriana KRANENDONK (1), Leeuwarden
• Christiaan Zwiers van de Velde (39), Hijkersmilde (Smilde)
• Blazina Geertruida Schrier (2), Wissenkerke
• Aldert Arkies (65), Peize, Nederland
• Alida Margaretha Lukken (14), Groningen

• 1891 » William F. Albright, American archaeologist, philologist, and scholar († 1971)
• 1895 » Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications († 1979)
• 1899 » Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter († 1984)
• 1899 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player († 1938)
• 1900 » Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1901 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager († 1968)
• 1902 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician († 1954)
• 1902 » Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor († 2004)
• 1905 » George Nakashima, American woodworker and architect († 1990)
• 1905 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)

• 1861 » Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
• 1879 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 » Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)

• 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 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
• May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
• May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
• June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
• June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
• June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.

The temperature on May 24, 1900 was about 12.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.