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• Adrianus Cornelius Jacobus de Roos, Oosterhout
• Anna Kesler, Maastricht († 1969)
• Albertine Antonia Wilhelmina Gilbert, Probolingo (Indonesie)
• Aimé Oscar D'HAUWERS, Balegem († 1977)
• Fokke Moolenaar, Sassenheim († 1983)
• Adèla Laurentina TEJEDOR DEL RIO, BOURS (65) († 1960)
• Albert Berendsen, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje van der Veen, Metslawier († 1976)
• Adriana Maria VAN DER VELDEN, Bleiswijk,Zuid-Holland,PAYS-BAS
• Alida Helena Johanna ter Haar, Delft,Gemeente Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Catharina Fisch (64), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Louisa Brand
• Catharina Hauwert, Medemblik
• Dreise (0), Woltersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Theresa Verslyppe (80), Klerken
• Arie Ververs (0), Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonia Louisa Brand
• Aafke Rademaker (23)
• Charles Louis Joseph DRIEUX (66), Esquelbecq... Hauts de France
• Adrianus Zandvliet (12), Zoeterwoude, ZH, Nederland

• 1891 » Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer († 1952)
• 1896 » Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic († 1953)
• 1898 » Marguerite Bise, French chef († 1965)
• 1901 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1902 » Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1904 » Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver († 1948)
• 1905 » André Jolivet, French composer († 1974)
• 1907 » Benny Carter, American saxophonist, trumpet player, and composer († 2003)
• 1908 » Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1990)
• 1909 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English cricketer and politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1977)

• 1879 » Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1797)
• 1887 » Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1920 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)

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.
• February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
• April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
• 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 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.
• May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
• June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.

The temperature on August 8, 1900 was about 19.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.