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• Albert Leon DELEU, Houthem, 7781, Hainaut, Wallonie, Belgique († 1974)
• Adriana Petronella Gijsberti Hodenpijl, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands
• van den Broek, Heeswijk († 1901)
• Aleida Geertruida Stobbe, Avereest († 1924)
• Aaltje Broers Terpstra, (Sybrandahuis) († 1991)
• Alonzo Houston Blackwell († 1997)
• Aaltje Birza, Zuidhorn, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaan Hendrikse, Ouwerkerk († 1953)
• Alida Meijer, Nederhorst den Berg, Wijdemeren, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1916)
• Abraham van Toor, Vlaardingen († 1940)

• Antonius den Bekker (57), Appeltern
• Anna Maria Consten (Konsten) (0), Nieuwenhagen
• Adranus Leendertsz. de Waard (80), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
• Adriana Isabella van Voorden (70), Kampen,Gemeente Kampen,Overijssel,Netherlands
• Adrianus Florentius Koeberg (29), Rotterdam
• Andries Jacobus Scholtz (42)
• Lijdia Christina Lindenaar (85), Aalsmeer
• August Bierwerts (0), Hoepertingen, België
• Aaltje Swart (64), Zuidhorn, Groningen, Nederland
• Augustus Vanspauwen (4), Schoonbeek-Beverst, België

• 1895 » Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, academic, and diplomat († 1960)
• 1896 » Hans List, Austrian scientist and businessman, founded the AVL Engineering Company († 1996)
• 1896 » Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist († 1972)
• 1897 » Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter († 1983)
• 1900 » Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet († 1984)
• 1901 » Simon Kuznets, Belarusian-American economist, statistician, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1902 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1905 » Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic († 2012)
• 1908 » Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic professor of law and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland († 1970)
• 1908 » Eve Arden, American actress († 1990)

• 1865 » Robert FitzRoy, English admiral, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (b. 1805)
• 1870 » Thomas Cooke, Canadian bishop and missionary (b. 1792)
• 1875 » Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
• 1879 » Emma Smith, American religious leader (b. 1804)
• 1883 » Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)
• 1891 » Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist and author (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (b. 1863)
• 1903 » Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and activist (b. 1831)
• 1910 » Jean Moréas, Greek poet and critic (b. 1856)
• 1936 » A. E. Housman, English poet and scholar (b. 1859)

• 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.
• May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
• August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
• September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
• September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
• 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 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

The temperature on April 30, 1901 was between 6.0 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (41%).