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• Adriana Paans, Werkendam († 1970)
• Aart Mosterd, Barneveld
• Albert Brester, Amsterdam († 1972)
• Adriana Jacoba Willemen, Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1985)
• Aaltje de Weerd, Hierden († 1981)
• Adrianus Heijmans, Schijndel
• Alida Corver, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Adriana Paans, Werkendam († 1970)
• Adrianus Hendrikus de Krom, Princenhage, Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1969)
• -Joseph Elisée Procope BRUNELLE, TRAMECOURT, 62

• Barbertje Hanzes Nieuwenhuis (50), Surhuisterveen, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharina Louisa Apolonia Rendorp (65), Arnhem 50
• Albertus van Elburg (63)
• Antonius Wilhelmus Johannes van Kolck (2), Nijmegen
• Bauke Hessels van der Wal (29), Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Fabius (57)
• Antonius Arnoldus Banken (3), Appeltern
• Anna Catherina Vossen (85), Maasbracht
• Adrianus Godschalk (0), Made en Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Vossen (85), Maasbracht

• 1895 » Oswald Freisler, German lawyer and author († 1939)
• 1896 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter († 1974)
• 1899 » Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing († 1992)
• 1902 » Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player († 1957)
• 1903 » Candido Portinari, Brazilian painter († 1962)
• 1904 » Kuvempu, Indian author and poet († 1994)
• 1908 » Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author († 1993)
• 1908 » Magnus Pyke, English scientist and author († 1992)
• 1910 » Ronald Coase, English-American economist, author, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1911 » Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and spy († 1988)

• 1887 » Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
• 1890 » Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
• 1897 » William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
• 1900 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
• 1910 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)

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.
• March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
• 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 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.
• October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
• November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
• 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.

The temperature on December 29, 1901 was between 1.7 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%).