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• Adriana Lissina Holland, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Aafke de Wit († 1957)
• Adriana Vreeling, Losser,Gemeente Losser, Overijssel, Nederland († 1901)
• Adriana Johanna Maria Isabella Leijten, Maastricht (Limburg, NLD)
• Alida Kammeijer, Haarlem
• Adriana Jacoba van Dijk, Anna Paulowna († 1982)
• Aaltje van de Kamp, Barneveld († 1978)
• Adriana Dijkhuizen, 's-Gravenhage († 1901)
• Albert Algra, Kampen († 1981)

• Alberta Breukink (68), Brink nr Deventer
• Abrahanna HOUWENGA (80), Three Oaks, Berrien, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Alberdina Pinkster (59), Termunterzijl gem. Termunten
• Cornelia van ELSWIJK (2), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Kamp (85), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Johannes Huibers (0), Berghem, 5351
• Carlota Bueno de Mattos (71), Imbituva, Paraná, Brasil
• Strik (0), Alem, Maeren en Kessel
• Clara Charlotte Flu (81), .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname
• Catharina Trussel (91)

• 1897 » Aksel Larsen, Danish lawyer and politician († 1972)
• 1897 » Roberta Dodd Crawford, American soprano and educator († 1954)
• 1900 » Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher, classical philologist and translator († 1988)
• 1901 » Claude Autant-Lara, French director, screenwriter, and politician († 2000)
• 1904 » Kenneth V. Thimann, English-American botanist and microbiologist († 1997)
• 1906 » Joan Hickson, English actress († 1998)
• 1906 » John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1906 » Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)
• 1908 » Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia († 1967)
• 1908 » Jose Garcia Villa, Filipino short story writer and poet († 1997)

• 1877 » Robert Williams (known as Trebor Mai), Welsh poet (b. 1830)
• 1880 » Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician and dermatologist (b. 1816)
• 1881 » Spotted Tail, American tribal chief (b. 1823)
• 1895 » Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1901 » Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1840)
• 1904 » George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1834)
• 1911 » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864)
• 1916 » George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885)
• 1921 » Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
• 1929 » Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)

• 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 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
• January 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
• February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
• May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
• June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
• August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.

The temperature on August 5, 1900 was about 13.0 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.