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• Aafke van der Heide, Surhuisterveen. (Smallingerland), Friesland, Nederland
• Gargoski, Rheden († 1901)
• Alida (Alie) Maria Voskuilen, Eemnes († 1952)
• Aafke Sietzes van der Heide, Surhuisterveen († 1970)
• Adriana Pieternella Quist, Domburg († 1978)
• Abel DE VRIES, Enumatil (Leek) Groningen Netherlands († 1905)
• Agatha Maria Kimman, Haarlem
• Aaltje van de Poll, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Aafke Sietzes van der Heide, Surhuisterveen, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1970)
• Adriana Antonia Wilhelmina van Dongen, Breda

• Adriaantje Roza (81), De Werken en Sleeuwijk
• Albertje Lijst (9), Middelveen (Zuidwolde)
• *Adriaantje Roza (81), De Werken en Sleeuwijk
• adriana heeren (0), ruchpen
• Zeeman (0), Bovenweg, Muntendam, Groningen, Nederland
• <> Aafke Rinzes Bijleveld (62), Delfzijl, Groningen, Netherlands
• Aaron William Mackenzie (70), Cresaptown, Allegany, Maryland, United States
• Adriana Richardus van der Pluijm (93), Dussen
• Anna Alida van Lookeren (74), Amsterdam
• alida van der SCHAGEN (36), vlissingen

• 1890 » Claro M. Recto, Filipino lawyer, jurist, and politician († 1960)
• 1893 » Ba Maw, Burmese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Burma († 1977)
• 1894 » King Vidor, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1982)
• 1897 » Zakir Hussain, Indian academic and politician, 3rd president of India († 1969)
• 1899 » Lonnie Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1970)
• 1903 » Greta Keller, Austrian-American singer and actress († 1977)
• 1903 » Tunku Abdul Rahman, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia († 1990)
• 1906 » Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography († 1968)
• 1909 » Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist († 2012)
• 1911 » Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and author († 1979)

• 1907 » Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1910 » Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, Irish hereditary peer (b. 1828)
• 1915 » François Langelier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1838)
• 1921 » George Formby Sr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857)
• 1932 » Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)

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.
• February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
• 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.
• August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
• October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
• December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

The temperature on February 8, 1901 was between -1.0 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (31%).