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• Adriana Woutera van Weerden, Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Cornelis Marius Grundlehner, Alkmaar
• Klein, Nieuwolda, Groningen, Nederland († 1901)
• Aaltje Groenendaal, Slagharen
• Aaltje Groenendaal, Slagharen, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje Tilder, Genemuiden († 1932)
• Aaltje Geertruida Jans Dragt, Doesburg
• Rietveld, meerkerk (zuid holland)
• Agatha Maria Bijleveld, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1901)
• Adriana Petronella Maria Magdalena Hendriks, Den Haag

• Aafke (Jans) Wiltschut (81), Zevenhuizen (Leek)
• Albertha (Martha) Hars (0), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Vlijm (59), Doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana de Graaf (35), Axel
• Abraham van der Pol (0), haarlemmermeer
• Albertus Johannes Wijngaards, Beemte, Netherlands
• Antoni (Anthonie - Antoon) Snitjer (70), Zuidbroek, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Haenen (71), Voerendaal, Limburg, Nederland
• Alida Petronella LEGEL (46), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Abraham Dobbelaar (90), Hoedekenskerke

• 1896 » Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-English conductor and director († 1971)
• 1897 » Karl Löwith, German philosopher, author, and academic († 1973)
• 1898 » Gracie Fields, English actress and singer († 1979)
• 1899 » Harald Tammer, Estonian journalist and weightlifter († 1942)
• 1900 » Richard Halliburton, American journalist and author († 1939)
• 1901 » Chic Young, American cartoonist († 1973)
• 1901 » Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress († 1991)
• 1902 » Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint, founded Opus Dei († 1975)
• 1902 » Rudolf Bing, American impresario and businessman († 1997)
• 1907 » Eldred G. Smith, American patriarch († 2013)

• 1878 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American-English businessman (b. 1812)
• 1901 » Richard Copley Christie, English lawyer and academic (b. 1830)
• 1908 » Abraham Goldfaden, Russian actor, playwright, and author (b. 1840)
• 1908 » Wilhelm Busch, German poet, illustrator, and painter (b. 1832)
• 1911 » Edvard Rusjan, Italian-Slovene pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1911 » Edwin Arthur Jones, American violinist and composer (b. 1853)
• 1917 » Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist (b. 1853)
• 1918 » Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844)
• 1923 » Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1888)

• 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 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
• May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
• July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
• September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
• September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
• December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

The temperature on January 9, 1901 was between -2.6 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%).