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• Alida Christina Visscher, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands († 1975)
• Schipperen, Princenhage, Nederland († 1980)
• Alfred Lochiel Mitchell, Kamas, Summit, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1938)
• Alphonsus Maria van de Graaf, Nederwetten († 1901)
• Adrianus Stolk, Krimpen aan de IJssel Z.H († 1979)
• Albert Wychers, Westerhorn (Grijpskerk), Groningen, Nederland († 1981)
• Adrianus Keeris, Eersel
• Adriana Knoester, Scheveningen, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1911)
• Adrianus Frederikus Petrus Bouwman, Amsterdam († 1972)
• Aaltje BUSCH, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1976)

• Abbie Ann Hoopes (81), West Chester, Pennsylvania
• Adrianus Roovers (76), Loenhout
• Anna Vanheusden (64), Bilzen Grote Bivelen
• Aaltje Smit (3), Oosterhesselen
• Anna Petronella barones van Heeckeren van Brandsenburg (76), Utrecht,Gemeente Utrecht,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Anna Petronella van Heeckeren van Brandsenburg (76), Utrecht
• Antonia van den Hurk (84), Dreumel
• Anna Petronella Barones van Heeckeren Van Brandsenburg (76), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albertus van Kempen (2), Langbroek
• Aafje JONGERT (82), Venhuizen(Nh)

• 1890 » Marjorie Main, American actress († 1975)
• 1896 » Richard Thorpe, American director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1898 » Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer († 1983)
• 1900 » Irmgard Bartenieff, German-American dancer and physical therapist, leading pioneer of dance therapy († 1981)
• 1903 » Vladimir Bartol, Italian-Slovene author and playwright († 1967)
• 1908 » Telford Taylor, American general, lawyer, and historian († 1998)
• 1909 » August Derleth, American anthologist and author († 1971)
• 1914 » Ralph Erskine, English-Swedish architect, designed The Ark and Byker Wall († 2005)
• 1914 » Weldon Kees, American author, poet, painter, and pianist († 1955)
• 1915 » Jim Ferrier, Australian golfer († 1986)

• 1856 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
• 1876 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (b. 1809)
• 1879 » Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (b. 1825)
• 1910 » Osman Hamdi Bey, Greek archaeologist and painter (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (b. 1828)
• 1925 » Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1927 » Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (b. 1858)
• 1929 » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1930 » Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (b. 1850)
• 1953 » Robert La Follette Jr., American politician, senator of Wisconsin (b. 1895)

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 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
• February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
• May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
• August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
• September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
• December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

The temperature on February 24, 1901 was between -1.5 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 2.1 °C.