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• Alize Sara Thorn, Schneidinitz († 1941)
• Abraham Kats, Enschede (NL) († 1941)
• Albertus Jacobus Onderwater, Stompwijk († 1984)
• Anna Maria Wynants, Tongerlo, 3960, België
• de Vos, Wemeldinge, Zeeland, Nederland
• (Levenloos geboren) van Son, Schijndel, 5480, Nederland († 1900)
• Albertus Jacobus Onderwater, Stompwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• Anna Catharina de Wit, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1985)
• Adolfina Wilhelmina Hinne, Mr. Cornelis, Batavia, Java, Ned. Indie
• Anna Maria Catherina van Hoof, Hoeven (NL) († 1905)

• Andriesjen Baten de Vries (58), Vollenhove
• Antonia van der Veken (51), Zevenbergen
• Antonia Van der Veken (51), Zevenbergen, Nederland
• Auke Nijdam (0), Utingeradeel
• Alida Camet (67), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Tette Atzes Dijkstra (87), Haskerdijken
• Aard Septer (59), Utrecht (Utrecht)
• Arie Buurman (0), Boskoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelm Bos (6), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andriesjen de Vries* (58), Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1892 » Bruno Schulz, Ukrainian-Polish author and painter († 1942)
• 1895 » Buckminster Fuller, American architect and engineer, designed the Montreal Biosphère († 1983)
• 1895 » Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano († 1962)
• 1895 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and songwriter († 1960)
• 1899 » E.D. Nixon, American civil rights leader († 1987)
• 1902 » Günther Anders, German philosopher and journalist († 1992)
• 1902 » Tony Lovink, Dutch politician; Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies († 1995)
• 1902 » Vic Armbruster, Australian rugby league player († 1984)
• 1904 » Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1907 » Weary Dunlop, Australian colonel and surgeon († 1993)

• 1870 » John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (b. 1809)
• 1892 » Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented baseball (b. 1820)
• 1910 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1887)
• 1926 » Charles Wood Irish composer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)
• 1931 » Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor (b. 1877)
• 1935 » Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1887)

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 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
• March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
• June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
• July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
• December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

The temperature on July 12, 1900 was about 24.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 43%.