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• Adriaan van der Rhee, Sint Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Pieternella Francisca WANTS, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1921)
• Adriana Pieternella Francisca Wanst, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1921)
• Adriana Bakker, Zuid Scharwoude († 1937)
• Aaldert Brand Weijland, Elst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Lohuizen, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1976)
• Adriana Bakker, Zuid-Scharwoude, Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1937)
• Adrianus van Orden, Styrum(D) († 1981)
• Alphonse Gielen, Rukkelingen-Loon († 1954)
• Adriana Elisabeth van der Zwan, Scheveningen († 1927)

• Bos (0), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna van Dellen (0), Kollum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Aalbert Plugge (70), Scheveningen ('s-Gravenhage)
• * Norbertus Antonius Baars (0), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, NL
• Arie Cornelis Jansen (0), Zaamslag
• Anna VAN DELLEN (0), Kollum Friesland Netherlands
• Adrianus Struik (0), Schiedam
• Anna Bertha van de Klashorst (28), Muiderberg, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Hubertina Schumacher (73), Baesweiler-Puffendorf (DL
• Adrianus Tops (58), Teteringen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1888 » Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician († 1964)
• 1890 » Peder Furubotn, Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (d.1975)
• 1891 » Marquis James, American journalist and author († 1955)
• 1898 » Preston Sturges, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1901 » Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee († 1986)
• 1904 » Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1905 » Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist († 1941)
• 1905 » Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player († 1979)
• 1910 » Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic († 1985)
• 1911 » John Charnley, British orthopedic surgeon († 1982)

• 1866 » Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
• 1877 » Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 » Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
• 1891 » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 » William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
• 1904 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b.1866)
• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
• 1930 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)

• 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 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
• February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
• June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
• July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
• December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.

The temperature on August 29, 1900 was about 22.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.