About the day » Tuesday July 17, 1900Calender converter

• Agatha Schmitt, São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1958)
• Agnetia Carolina Joos, Sinaai-Waas (Oost-Vlaanderen, België)
• Amelia L "Amy" Watson, Berrien Co, Georgia, Verenigde Staten († 1955)
• Alida Jonkman, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
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• Alida VOS, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Bolt, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota († 1990)
• Aleida Gezina Letteboer, Ambt Almelo († 1900)
• Aletta STUURMAN, Dordrecht
• Adriana Cornelia van Landeghem, Wouw, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1979)

• Christiaan Joseph Meesters (67), Vaals
• Anna van den Berg (63), Utrecht
• Agnes Hamilton-Dalrymple (77), of Stair, Ayr, Scotland
• Akke Zetzema (45), Siegerswoude
• Alice M Elkins (48), Plattsburgh, Clinton, New York, United States
• Alida Catharina Mentz (31), Amsterdam
• Albert Meijer (1), Musselkanaal (gem. Stadskanaal)
• Binne Oebeles de Boer (70), Twijzel
• Arnoldus MOONEN (81), Breda,,Noord-Brabant,PAYS BAS
• Anthonia Adriana Zandvliet (0), Hazerswoude

• 1896 » Rupert Atkinson, English RAF officer († 1919)
• 1898 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer († 1991)
• 1898 » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer († 1999)
• 1899 » James Cagney, American actor and dancer († 1986)
• 1900 » Marcel Dalio, French actor († 1983)
• 1901 » Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author († 1938)
• 1901 » Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver († 1994)
• 1901 » Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine († 1982)
• 1902 » Christina Stead, Australian author and academic († 1983)
• 1905 » William Gargan, American actor († 1979)

• 1883 » Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)
• 1885 » Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 » Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1894 » Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
• 1907 » Hector Malot, French author and critic (b. 1830)
• 1912 » Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)
• 1918 » Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family

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 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
• March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
• May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
• June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
• July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
• November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

The temperature on July 17, 1900 was about 22.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.