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• Adrianus KRONENBERG, Arnhem
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Joannes Cornelis Bertens, Tilburg
• Aleida Margaretha Heller, Odoorn
• Aleida Henrietta PETERS, Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aartje Gijsberts Kreeft, Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1920)
• Andreas Alphonsus Goormans, Nijlen († 1962)
• Andries Cornelis Moret, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Alida Heemskerk, Warmond, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alle Jager
• Andreas Alphonsus Goormans, Nijlen, België († 1962)

• Arnoldus Landelinus Landolinus Langenhuijsen (76), Empel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• (76), Empel, Nederland
• Ann LAMBERT (71), Yorkshire, England
• Abe Sjoukes Hania (41)
• Anna Maria Bohnen (79), São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Abe Sjoukes Hainje (41)
• Anna Theresia Rosa van Koch (50), Roermond
• Anna Ottens (39), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arie Kaptein (68), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Adrianus van Boekel (0), Empel

• 1893 » William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author († 1947)
• 1895 » Frank Foss, American pole vaulter († 1989)
• 1895 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher († 1961)
• 1895 » Richard Barthelmess, American actor († 1963)
• 1896 » Richard Day, Canadian-American art director and set decorator († 1972)
• 1900 » Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress († 1992)
• 1904 » Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator († 1988)
• 1905 » Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist († 1998)
• 1906 » Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator († 1988)
• 1907 » Jackie Grant, Trinidadian cricketer († 1978)

• 1864 » John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)
• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)

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 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
• April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
• June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
• October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

The temperature on May 9, 1900 was about 12.1 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.