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• Adriana Wilhelmina van Kleunen, Kattendijke († 1982)
• Andries Dijkgraaf, Noordgouwe gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL († 1996)
• Booij, Terband, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus de Winter, Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1902)
• Aagtje de Jongh, Broek op L'dijk
• Adrianus de Brouwer, Drunen († 1966)
• Alida Petronella Everdina Marschall, (NH) Amsterdam († 1972)
• Albertus Franciscus Tiggeler, Enschede († 1981)
• Abraham Izak Lamain, Wissekerke († 1987)
• De Clercq, Koewacht, Nederland († 1981)

• Arie Roubos (79), De Werken en Sleeuwijk, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adriana van Rossum (72), Nieuwer-Amstel
• Adriaentje Zoeter (83)
• Ann Violet Scott (82)
• Afina van Komen (70), Slochteren (gem. Midden-Groningen)
• Bastiaan Hofland (62), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Jans Vegter (81), Nieuwelaan gem. Veendam
• Annigje van Dijk (3), Zwolle
• "Friedrich" Maria Ferdinand Ignaz Franz Alois Veit Felix Athanasius von Attems (83), Graz, Autriche
• Arend Jan Haykers (59), elsen

• 1894 » Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer and businessman († 1952)
• 1898 » Frances Mary Albrier, American civil rights activist († 1987)
• 1899 » Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army († 1986)
• 1902 » Allen Lane, English publisher, founded Penguin Books († 1970)
• 1902 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player († 1937)
• 1902 » Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic († 1963)
• 1903 » Preston Tucker, American engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan († 1956)
• 1904 » Hans Hartung, German-French painter († 1989)
• 1905 » Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman and politician († 1999)
• 1906 » Henry Beachell, American biologist and botanist († 2006)

• 1874 » Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (b. 1798)
• 1880 » Manuel Montt, Chilean scholar and politician, 6th President of Chile (b. 1809)
• 1887 » Wazid Ali Shah, last Nawab of Awadh (b. 1822)
• 1904 » Chief Joseph, American tribal leader (b. 1840)
• 1905 » Nikolay Benardos, Ukrainian inventor (b. 1842)
• 1906 » Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (b. 1838)
• 1926 » Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (b. 1857)
• 1933 » Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Osgood Perkins, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1938 » Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (b. 1874)

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 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
• February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
• February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
• March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
• September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
• October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

The temperature on September 21, 1901 was between 13.7 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (66%).