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• Aaltje Jacoba Claus, Nieuw Amsterdam (Emmen), Drenthe, Nederland
• Abraham Wilbrink, Veendam († 1905)
• Albertje Gjaltema, Opende († 1940)
• Aaltsje \ Aaltje Mulder († 1971)
• Abraham de Groot, Leiden, ZUI, Nederland
• Albert Pieterman, Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland († 1943)
• Albertje Hummel, Odoorn, Drenthe, Netherlands(Exloermond) († 1903)
• Adriaan Lingmont, Den Helder
• Aart Bronkhorst, Meerveld, gem. Apeldoorn († 1964)
• Adriana Slingerland, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Bart Jan Cornelisz. Post (1), Haarlem (Memories van Successie)
• Antje Over (38), Nieuwe Niedorp
• Antje Mes (70), Hoorn
• Adrianus Gevers (1), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Brouwer (28), Abcoude-Baambrugge
• Bart Post (71), Haarlem (71jr)
• Anna Maria Gijsbers (68), Mierlo
• Antonia Van METEREN
• Alice Carol Rosa (1), Union, Rock, Wisconsin, United States
• Arie Van BOGGELEN (79), Dordrecht

• 1898 » Eileen Sedgwick, American actress († 1991)
• 1898 » Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator († 1998)
• 1898 » Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet († 1971)
• 1900 » C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor († 1932)
• 1900 » Jean Arthur, American actress († 1991)
• 1900 » Yvor Winters, American critic and poet († 1968)
• 1901 » Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator († 1973)
• 1902 » Irene Ryan, American actress († 1973)
• 1903 » Andrei Grechko, Soviet general († 1976)
• 1903 » Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter († 1940)

• 1868 » Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
• 1887 » Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
• 1889 » Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
• 1893 » Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
• 1910 » Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
• 1918 » Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
• 1928 » Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
• 1937 » J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)

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.
• January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
• July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
• September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
• November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
• December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

The temperature on October 17, 1901 was between 7.5 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (25%).