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• Adriana Antonia Vermolen, Hagenstein († 1976)
• Alexander Henricus Matthijs Willems, Groesbeek, Gelderland, Nederland († 1968)
• Anna Gebina Scheve, Munsterscheveld, Emmer-Compascuum, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1999)
• Adriana Maria van den Burg, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1974)
• Anna Gebina SCHEEVE, Emmen
• Achiel Joseph Henri Van Den Hemel, Sint Margriete (O-VL) België († 1975)
• Adriaan Pieter Duunk, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfons Goormans, Nijlen († 1969)
• Anna Gebina (Scheve) Scheeve, Munsterscheveld, Emmen
• Agatha Johanna Ruiterman, Wateringen,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Alida Verhoop (39), 's Gravenhage
• Anthonia de Kruijff (74), ,, Houten, Nederland
• Anthonia de Kruijff (74), Houten
• Albert Ishee (14)
• Alexander Wilhem Clarenbach (63), Salatiga
• Adriaan Louwerse (75), 's-Heer Arendskerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaan Louwerse (75), 's-Heer Arendskerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alexander Wilhelm CLARENBACH (63), Salatiga, Central Java, Dutch East Indies
• Adriaan van Orten (78), Son en Breugel
• Anna Maria Pálffy van Erdöd (96), Bratislava (Pressburg), Slowakije

• 1892 » Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer († 1982)
• 1892 » Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia († 1980)
• 1893 » Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager († 1985)
• 1896 » Kathleen McKane Godfree, English tennis and badminton player († 1992)
• 1899 » Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic († 1998)
• 1901 » Gary Cooper, American actor († 1961)
• 1903 » Jimmy Ball, Canadian sprinter († 1988)
• 1904 » Kurt Weitzmann, German-American historian and author († 1993)
• 1905 » Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer († 1989)
• 1906 » Eric Krenz, American discus thrower and shot putter († 1931)

• 1868 » Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
• 1872 » Alexander Loyd, American carpenter and politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1876 » William Buell Sprague, American clergyman, historian, and author (b. 1795)
• 1887 » C. F. W. Walther, German-American religious leader and theologian (b. 1811)
• 1896 » H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1861)
• 1902 » Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (b. 1818)
• 1917 » Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)
• 1922 » Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)
• 1925 » William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)

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 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
• February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
• July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
• August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
• August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
• September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

The temperature on May 7, 1900 was about 15.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.