About the day » Saturday September 15, 1900Calender converter

• Witte, Axel
• Albert Evert Draatjer, Vlagtwedde
• Aaltjen Baarslag, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aalt Motshagen, Putten
• Adriana-Francisca Naaijkens, Tilburg († 1986)
• Aalt Motshagen, Putten
• Alice Agnes Wanous, Freeborn Co, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1981)
• Adriana De La Rey Scheepers († 1984)
• van den Belt (van den Beld)
• Geertruida Lammina de Vries, Groningen

• Catharina Elisabeth Waar (7), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amandus Martinus Carolus VERSCHAVE (51), Pervijze,8600,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Antje Sipkes Postma (77), Leeuwarden
• Berend Sulman (6), Oude Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie Huibert van Oostrum (63), Bodegraven, Nederland
• Berendina Doesschot (76), Enschede, Ov, Nederland
• Berend Harms HELWERDA (0), Kloosterburen Groningen Netherlands
• Anna Elisabeth Kroll (80), Utrecht
• Adriana van den Hoven (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Agnes Nelissen (3), Koningsbosch, Netherlands

• 1894 » Chic Harley, American football player († 1974)
• 1894 » Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1894 » Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic († 1977)
• 1895 » Magda Lupescu, mistress and later wife of King Carol II of Romania (d.1977)
• 1897 » Merle Curti, American historian and author († 1997)
• 1898 » J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and author († 1936)
• 1901 » Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed Bailey bridge († 1985)
• 1903 » Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler († 1992)
• 1904 » Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, journalist, and author († 1988)
• 1904 » Umberto II of Italy († 1983)

• 1859 » Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806)
• 1864 » John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (b. 1827)
• 1883 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)
• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1921 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
• 1926 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1930 » Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1882)
• 1938 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900)
• 1940 » William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874)

• 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 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
• February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
• February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
• March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
• 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 September 15, 1900 was about 10.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 99%.