About the day » Saturday September 8, 1900Calender converter

• Alexandrine Luise Kiefer, Charlottenburg (D)
• Adriana Sol, Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Cornelis de Zeeuw, Rumpt († 1989)
• Alberto José Longen, Vargem Grande, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Aaltje Naarding, Zweeloo, Drenthe, Nederland
• ADRIAAN VAN DER ZWAN, VLAARDINGEN († 1900)
• Adelaide Charlotte Josephine Taekema, Haarlem
• Aleida Maria EINHAUS, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1990)
• Annigje Wemmenhove, Alteveer († 1933)
• Aaltje Eleveld, Gronau († 1921)

• Anna Margaretha Ockeloen (89), Utrecht
• Abraham Lauret (Louweret) (58), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aloysius Vingerhoets (0), WILRIJK
• Annigje Duim (62), Hattem, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Tegeler (0)
• Alexander Tyler (25), St Louis, Missouri
• Aaltje \ Alida Benschop (64), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Petronilia Mathei (74), Aruba
• Anna Wilhelmina Klumpen (1), Nette, Viersen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• A Boland Landrum (39), Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston, Texas, Verenigde Staten

• 1894 » John Samuel Bourque, Canadian soldier and politician († 1974)
• 1894 » Willem Pijper, Dutch composer and critic († 1947)
• 1896 » Howard Dietz, American publicist and songwriter († 1983)
• 1897 » Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1933)
• 1900 » Claude Pepper, American lawyer and politician († 1989)
• 1900 » Tilly Devine, English-Australian organised crime boss († 1970)
• 1901 » Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa († 1966)
• 1903 » Jane Arbor, English author († 1994)
• 1906 » Andrei Kirilenko, Russian engineer and politician († 1990)
• 1907 » William Wentworth, Australian economist and politician, 11th Australian Minister for Human Services († 2003)

• 1882 » Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1909 » Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player (b. 1853)
• 1916 » Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1836)
• 1933 » Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
• 1935 » Carl Weiss, American physician (b. 1906)
• 1940 » Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (b. 1903)
• 1944 » Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (b. 1881)

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.
• 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 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
• April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
• May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
• May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.

The temperature on September 8, 1900 was about 12.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.