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• Allegonda van Schaijk, Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1965)
• Anna Agnes Hendrica BRAUN, Posterholt († 1980)
• Aafje van der Weij, Kalteren, Diever
• Aafje van der Weij, Kalteren (Diever) († 1989)
• Andries Bastiaan van Beek, Sint Philipsland, Zeeland, The Netherlands († 1901)
• Alfons Jozef Bogaerts, Lier
• Aaltje Kamerman, Barendrecht
• Aaltje Albertus, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aalze Jentjes Weima, Folgeren († 1963)
• Aaltje Schotkamp, Zwolle (Ov ) († 1905)

• Agnes Boeijen (49), Berghem
• Adriana Houniet (80), Oegstgeest
• Albert Ludwig Friedrich Freiherr von Senarclens-Grancy (53), Sint Petersburg,,Sankt-Peterburg,Russia
• Alida Johanna Bijleveld (1), Zwolle
• Aloijsius Petrus Fernandus RUYSSEN (77), Roeselare, Province of West Flanders, Belgium
• Andries van Buren (76), Leiden
• Adriaan Jobse (71), Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Albert Ludwig Friedrich von Senarclens-Grancy (53), St.Petersburg
• Albertina Mars (76), Hellendoorn
• Adrianus Strijdhorst (69), Zevenhuizen Z.H

• 1895 » Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician and academic († 1985)
• 1896 » George Burns, American actor, comedian, and producer († 1996)
• 1898 » U Razak, Burmese educator and politician († 1947)
• 1899 » Clarice Cliff, English potter († 1972)
• 1899 » Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer († 1990)
• 1900 » Colin Clive, English actor († 1937)
• 1900 » Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist († 1983)
• 1902 » Kevin Barry, Irish Republican Army volunteer († 1920)
• 1902 » Leon Ames, American actor († 1993)
• 1906 » Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate († 1975)

• 1891 » Kalākaua, king of Hawaii (b. 1836)
• 1900 » John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (b. 1826)
• 1907 » Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (b. 1842)
• 1908 » John Ordronaux, American surgeon and academic (b. 1830)
• 1913 » José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1915 » Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, Irish businessman, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1840)
• 1920 » Georg Lurich, Estonian-Russian wrestler and strongman (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1847)
• 1924 » Henry "Ivo" Crapp, Australian footballer and umpire (b. 1872)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Wilhelmus
14. Arie
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Petronella
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
• March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
• April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
• May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
• June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
• November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
• December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

The temperature on January 20, 1901 was between 4.5 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 5.7 °C.