About the day » Sunday August 12, 1900Calender converter

• Vegers, Zevenbergen († 1959)
• Adriana Cornelia Lauwen, Roosendaal, Nederland († 1996)
• Adrianus Cornelis van Hees, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Modderkolk, Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland († 1901)
• Anna Wieten, Schoonoord
• Abraham Hirsch Petzenbaum, Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
• Aletta Geertruida Wilhelmina van Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, Poerworedjo (Ned. Indië) († 1990)
• Alida Cornelia van den Bosch, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Annie or Rentmeester, Preble Twp, Brown county, WI († 1983)
• Abraham Christoffel Hendrik Suurmond, Oost West Souburg

• Aaltje Dilling (29), Gasselte, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antonia Bauwer, Giethmen (Ommen, Ambt)
• Arie Kamphorst (47), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cecilia Cornelia Goossen * (49), Steenwijk
• Charlotte Hulleman (0), Voorst
• Charlotte Hulleman (0), Voorst,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Hendriks de Nekker (59), Doezum, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Paulissen (0), Maastricht
• Berendina Jacoba Wilbrink (28), Brink &, Orden, Apeldoorn
• Catherina Rosalia Van de Wouwer (42), Kessel, 2560, België

• 1897 » Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer († 1981)
• 1899 » Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer († 1963)
• 1902 » Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia († 1980)
• 1904 » Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia († 1918)
• 1904 » Idel Jakobson, Latvian-Estonian NKVD officer († 1997)
• 1904 » Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter († 2009)
• 1906 » Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach († 1985)
• 1906 » Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1907 » Gladys Bentley, American blues singer († 1960)
• 1907 » Joe Besser, American actor († 1988)

• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)

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.
• March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
• 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 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
• May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
• June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.

The temperature on August 12, 1900 was about 13.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.