About the day » Thursday August 16, 1900Calender converter

• Alfred Ernest Ghislain Jeunehomme, Montigny-le-Tilleul,6110,Hainaut,BE
• Adriana BAARS, Maurik (Gelderland, The Netherlands) († 1988)
• Alida Catharina Maria Imming, Alkmaar († 1985)
• Alice Van Fleet, unbekannt († 1953)
• Gerardus Johannes Jacobus de Vries, Pannerden († 1966)
• Alida Catharina Maria Imming, Alkmaar († 1985)
• Alwilder Cook (Hollins), SC., South Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Margaretha Alida Stuijt, Rotterdam († 1968)
• Ankje Sietzes de Boer, Opeinde, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1979)
• Adriana Maria Akkermans, Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland

• Adrianus Jacobus in den Haak (0), Zaandam
• Aafke Iedema (6), Tietjerksteradeel,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland
• De Wit (0), Oude Pekela, Nederland
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• Bijke Schreuder (2), O.Pekela
• Abel van der Molen (80), Noordlaren
• Albertus Gerardus Waasdorp (2), Leiden
• Augustinus de Lange (82), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Keulen (10), Echteld,Gemeente Neder-Betuwe,Gelderland,Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Leijten (22), Dongen (Noord-Brabant, NLD)

• 1892 » Hal Foster, Canadian-American author and illustrator († 1982)
• 1892 » Otto Messmer, American cartoonist and animator, co-created Felix the Cat († 1983)
• 1894 » George Meany, American plumber and labor leader († 1980)
• 1895 » Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss author and playwright († 1981)
• 1895 » Liane Haid, Austrian-Swiss actress and singer († 2000)
• 1900 » Ida Browne, Australian geologist and palaeontologist († 1976)
• 1902 » Georgette Heyer, English author († 1974)
• 1902 » Wallace Thurman, American author and playwright († 1934)
• 1904 » Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician († 1989)
• 1904 » Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)

• 1886 » Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and philosopher (b. 1836)
• 1887 » Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (b. 1837)
• 1888 » John Pemberton, American pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
• 1893 » Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811)
• 1900 » José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)
• 1904 » Prentiss Ingraham, American soldier and author (b. 1843)
• 1911 » Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (b. 1830)
• 1914 » Carl Theodor Schulz, German-Norwegian gardener (b. 1835)
• 1916 » George Scott, English footballer (b. 1885)

• 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 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
• May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
• May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
• June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
• September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
• October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

The temperature on August 16, 1900 was about 22.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.