About the day » Friday September 28, 1900Calender converter

• * Bertha Breddels, Rotterdam
• Alagonda Nöbbe, Holte (Onstwedde, Groningen)
• Fenslage, Deldorf, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1900)
• Adriana Suzanna Wispelaere, Schoondijke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1957)
• Adria M. Moss († 1973)
• Adrianus van Mierlo
• Adrien Hubert Marie Roomer, Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland († 1978)
• Adolf Meijer, Zaltbommel ( Gelderland ) († 1936)
• Leonardus Hubertus de Bie, Venlo
• Aafke Jager, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland

• Antje Leverts Zweep (64), Oude Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Martinus Wijma (0), Hoogemeeden, gem. Aduard, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Zweep (63), Oude Pekela
• Antonius Franciscus Jacobus van Hoek (0), Gilze en Rijen
• Fenslage (0), Deldorf, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Antonie Marinus van Heijzen (0)
• Antonia Jozefina HERMSEN (0), Elst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltien van Boven (58), Gieten
• Aag Tittes Woudstra (78), Stavoren, FRI, Nederland
• Alice van Dam (0), Kalamazoo Township (Kalamazoo County) (Michigan)

• 1893 » Giannis Skarimpas, Greek author, poet, and playwright († 1984)
• 1893 » Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician († 1973)
• 1898 » Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician († 1957)
• 1900 » Isabel Pell, American socialite, fought as part of the French Resistance during WWII († 1951)
• 1901 » Ed Sullivan, American television host († 1974)
• 1901 » William S. Paley, American broadcaster, founded CBS († 1990)
• 1903 » Haywood S. Hansell, American general († 1988)
• 1905 » Max Schmeling, German boxer († 2005)
• 1907 » Bhagat Singh, Indian activist († 1931)
• 1907 » Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast and physician († 1997)

• 1873 » Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
• 1891 » Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)
• 1899 » Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (b. 1858)
• 1914 » Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863)
• 1915 » Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
• 1918 » Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896)
• 1918 » Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1925 » Paul Vermoyal, French actor (b. 1888)
• 1935 » William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (b. 1860)

• 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 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
• March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
• April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
• June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
• July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
• July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

The temperature on September 28, 1900 was about 12.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.