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• Adriana Maria van Agtmaal, Wouw († 1971)
• Albert Rodermond, Wanneperveen, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1985)
• Albertus van Engelenhoven, Ede
• ? Bruin, Wormerveer, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1901)
• Aaltje Hendrika Van Huffelen, Heerde († 1975)
• Adrianus van Dijk, Vlaardingen († 1901)
• Albertus Westera, Den Ham, Overijssel, Nederland († 1983)
• Albertus Derks, Hatert, NL
• Adriana Maria Philomena Johanna van Agtmaal, Wouw († 1971)
• A. Klinkhamer († 1972)

• Aaltjen Lievestro (60), Ruurlo
• Adrianus van Drunen (0), Rotterdam
• Alida Johanna Clasina de Jongh (80), Den Haag
• Aaltje List (52), Tietjerksteradeel
• Adrianus van Drunen (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Smit (2), Nijkerk
• Klooster Pieter Hindriks (78), Oude Pekela
• Adriana de Zeeuw (75), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berkenpas (78), Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• "Philipp" Karl Alexander von und zu Liechtenstein (63), Wien, Autriche

• 1895 » Ernest Labrousse, French historian († 1988)
• 1897 » Antonio Donghi, Italian painter († 1963)
• 1897 » Conrad Nagel, American actor († 1970)
• 1900 » Cyril Hume, American novelist († 1966)
• 1900 » Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin († 1964)
• 1901 » Alexis Chantraine, Belgian footballer († 1987)
• 1903 » Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan († 2001)
• 1906 » Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and translator († 2009)
• 1906 » Henny Youngman, English-American violinist and comedian († 1998)
• 1906 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh-English cricketer and rugby player († 1944)

• 1888 » Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (b. 1801)
• 1892 » Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
• 1898 » Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (b. 1872)
• 1899 » Joseph Medill, American journalist and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
• 1903 » Roy Bean, American lawyer and judge (b. 1825)
• 1907 » John O'Leary, Irish politician (b. 1830)
• 1912 » Max Burckhard, Austrian theater director (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1914 » Gaston Calmette, French journalist (b. 1858)
• 1914 » John Murray, Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (b. 1841)

• 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.
• August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
• 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 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.
• September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
• 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 March 16, 1901 was between 6.0 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%).