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• Abraham van Straalen, 's-Gravenzande
• (Levenloos geboren) van Son, Schijndel, 5480, Nederland († 1900)
• Anna Lever, Nieuwe Pekela (NL)
• Albertus Jacobus Onderwater, Stompwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• van Ingen, Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1900)
• Aaltje van Egten, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1993)
• Alfons Albert Hosteaux, antwerpen († 1944)
• Anna Catharina de Wit, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1985)
• Adriana Geertruda Wilhelmina van der Lee, Lummen
• Anna Berns, Kapellen, Moers, Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland († 1971)

• Anna GUDDENS (99), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Bul (0), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arend Jan Meijboom, Zutphen
• Anna Maria Guddens (99), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annegien Kapma, Groningen
• Alberdina Geertruida ten Katen (2), Bergentheim
• Ailke Pieters Doornbos (90), Appingedam
• Antonia Veeken van der (51), Zevenbergen
• Anna Maria Huysmans (68), Aartselaar
• Antonius van den Maagdenberg (0), Wouw

• 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)

• 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 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
• February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
• July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
• July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
• August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
• October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

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