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• Antoine Jean Joseph Pottier, Spa, 4900, Liège, Belgique
• Anthonius van Kesteren, Groesbeek († 1970)
• Albertdina Kuik, Almelo
• Anna Boven, Zuidbroek († 1969)
• Adrianus Pals, Bergen op Zoom,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1970)
• Anna Maria Lucia VAN DOOREN, Thorn,,PAYS BAS († 1901)
• Antonia Augusta van Gijn, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Annigje Lok, Wanneperveen († 1974)
• Antje Batema, Teerns, gem. Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Mechtildis MEUWISSEN, Genk (Limburg) (B)

• Betje van Scherrenburg (76), Ede
• Caroline Johanna Victoria Elisabeth van Castell-Castell (80)
• Albertus Nijland (1), Zwolle
• Cornelia van den Berg (89), Haarlem
• Aaltje Tjipkes Sikkema (41), Tietjerksteradeel
• ........ Valk (0), Leerdam
• Aukje Nicolai (0), Drogeham (Achtkarspelen), Friesland, Nederland
• Albertus Hendriksz Nijland (1), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Charlotta Anna Charlotta Faber (70), Arnhem
• Aukje Nicolai (0), Drogeham, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland

• 1893 » Ernst Marcus, German zoologist († 1968)
• 1893 » Gaby Morlay, French actress († 1964)
• 1894 » Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer and pianist († 1942)
• 1895 » Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and manager († 1978)
• 1897 » John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist († 1974)
• 1899 » Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician († 1945)
• 1899 » Eugène Lapierre, Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator († 1970)
• 1900 » Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously († 1945)
• 1903 » Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet († 1987)
• 1903 » Ralph Yarborough, American colonel and politician († 1996)

• 1857 » Douglas William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (b. 1803)
• 1874 » Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)
• 1876 » George Sand, French author and playwright (b. 1804)
• 1885 » Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (b. 1799)
• 1889 » Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844)
• 1899 » Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (b. 1863)
• 1924 » Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1902)
• 1924 » George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Bliss Carman, Canadian-American poet and playwright (b. 1861)
• 1945 » Karl Hanke, Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903)

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 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
• February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
• May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
• May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
• June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
• 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.

The temperature on June 8, 1900 was about 13.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.