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• Anna Maria Beurden, van, Tilburg, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Ijzermans, Dulken (Duitsland ) († 1980)
• Anna Ambagtsheer, Hardinxveld
• (Stillborn) HOEXUM, Rasquert (Baflo) Groningen Netherlands († 1901)
• Aafje Blankendaal, Harenkarspel, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelissen, Gilze en Rijen († 1926)
• Anna Maria van Beurden, Tilburg
• Adriaantje van den Heuvel, Soest
• Anna Alberdina Schonewille, Hoogeveen
• Alfred Harry Louis Gilhuijs, Amsterdam

• Abram Stok (0), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Durinck (0), Graauw en Langendam (Zld)
• Antje Jansdr de Boer (61), Enkhuizen
• Anna Helena Borchers (43), Dörpen-Müll
• Albert Mulders (46), Eursinge, Beilen
• Albertus Michiels Binksma (64), Lutjegast
• Adriaan Rademakers (1), Schiedam
• Anna Kunneman (61), Amsterdam
• Antje Bethlehem (2), Drachten
• Alida Cornelia NOORDERGRAAF (7), Rotterdam (Z.-H.), Neth

• 1896 » Rupert Atkinson, English RAF officer († 1919)
• 1898 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer († 1991)
• 1898 » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer († 1999)
• 1899 » James Cagney, American actor and dancer († 1986)
• 1900 » Marcel Dalio, French actor († 1983)
• 1901 » Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author († 1938)
• 1901 » Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver († 1994)
• 1901 » Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine († 1982)
• 1902 » Christina Stead, Australian author and academic († 1983)
• 1905 » William Gargan, American actor († 1979)

• 1883 » Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)
• 1885 » Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 » Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1894 » Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
• 1907 » Hector Malot, French author and critic (b. 1830)
• 1912 » Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)
• 1918 » Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
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.
• January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
• March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
• April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
• August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
• September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
• September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.

The temperature on July 17, 1901 was between 11.1 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (66%).