About the day » Tuesday August 7, 1900Calender converter

• Aafje van der Lee, Nibbixwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1900)
• Frijters, Baarle-Hertog, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België († 1979)
• Anna Maria Barbara Lenssen, Kerkrade (L († 1900)
• Anna de Wit, Downs, Osborne County, Kansas († 1992)
• Anna Waterschoot, Oud Turnhout (België) († 1989)
• Antoinette Josina Eva Johanna Brinkman, Nieuw-Lekkerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Kwetters, Veen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annegien Kapma, Groningen
• Aafke Ruiter, Noordbroek, Groningen, Nederland
• Achiel Gentiel GOEMAERE, Bellegem,, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1973)

• Abraham Heijting (0), Velp
• Anna Cornelia van Beek (67), Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Maria van Elst (0)
• Abraham van Sonsbeek (0), Leiden
• Adriaan quist (0), Groningen
• Auguste Emile Joseph Drion (75), Etterbeek, Bruxelles, Belgique
• Auguste Emile DRION (75), Etterbeek (Brussels Gewest) (B)
• Agatha Moraal (69), Reeuwijk Z.H
• Albertus Konter (0), Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Baijens (23), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1887 » Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright († 1970)
• 1890 » Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist († 1964)
• 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
• 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
• 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)
• 1911 » István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician († 1979)
• 1911 » Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1913 » George Van Eps, American guitarist († 1998)

• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)

• 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 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
• February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
• May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
• August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
• September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
• October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

The temperature on August 7, 1900 was about 15.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.