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• Aaltje van de Wetering, Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude († 1912)
• Aldegondis Elisabeth Froyen, Alken, België († 1984)
• * Levenloos kind Kouwenhoven, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1901)
• Adriaan Adrianus van der Schans, Waspik, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1974)
• Adriana (Jaan) Dijkshoorn, Schipluiden (Midden-Delfland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1978)
• Agnes Martha Ida Wandel, Naumburg (Saale)
• Albertus Roosen, Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1970)
• Aalderik Jans Sillius, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Janssen, Batavia, Java, Indonesië
• Aaltje Reiniger, Kleinemeer (Sappemeer) († 1991)

• Alida Anna Wilhelmina Donck (32)
• Aafke Ybeles (Iebeles) Hellinga (80), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Verster (65), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Amand Charles Joseph de Bruge (61), Rotterdam
• Andries van Veen (73), Meerkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• ANNA CATHERINA MOLLEN (74), Brecht
• Abraham van den Bogaart (79), Sint-Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaan Hofkens (79), Ginneken en Bavel
• (Stillborn) LUBBERS (0), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Alexander GROEN (88), Hoogwoud, 4636, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1896 » Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1896 » Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and engineer († 1982)
• 1897 » Theodore Plucknett, English legal historian († 1965)
• 1900 » Una Ledingham, British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy († 1965)
• 1901 » Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society († 1939)
• 1902 » Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer († 2007)
• 1903 » Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest verified living person
• 1904 » Walter Heitler, German physicist and chemist († 1981)
• 1905 » Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1905 » Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor († 1998)

• 1861 » Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1920 » Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
• 1939 » Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1898)

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.
• June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
• June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
• 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 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
• October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

The temperature on January 2, 1901 was between -3.3 °C and -1.4 °C and averaged -1.8 °C.