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• Andreas van Gelderen, Hulst († 1904)
• Aage Niels Erdmann, Middelfart († 1969)
• Anabella McLeod, St Machar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland († 1996)
• * Adrianus Johannes Timmermans, Vlijmen († 1997)
• Anna Maria Dekker, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Schuurman, Zwolle
• Alvin Routen, Kings Mountain, Lincoln, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1922)
• Adrianus Johannes Timmermans, Vlijmen († 1997)
• Anna de Man, Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Beumer, De Steeg, 6994, Nederland († 1959)

• Adrienne Stanislas Léontine de Mailly-Nesle de MAILLY (70), Lignières, 18127, Cher, Centre, Frankrijk
• Anna Maria Groeneveld (78), Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonius OVERKLIFT VAUPEL KLEIJN (66), , Utrecht, Nederland
• Adolf Johann Albert Ziegesar, von (52), Brussel
• Aaltje Huising (27), Stadskanaal, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• van der Sar (0), 's-Gravenzande
• Anna Maria GROENEVELDT (78), Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alphonsius Arnoldus VANDENHOLT (3), Beverst (Limburg) (B)
• Albertje Bult (0), Steenwijk
• Adriana DONCKERS (87), Hooge Mierde, Reusel-De Mierden, Province of North Brabant, Netherlands

• 1893 » Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor and entrepreneur († 1961)
• 1895 » Reinhold Saulmann, Estonian sprinter and bandy player († 1936)
• 1895 » Saul Adler, Belarusian-English captain and parasitologist († 1966)
• 1897 » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1898 » A. J. Casson, Canadian painter († 1992)
• 1899 » Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer († 1979)
• 1901 » Werner Egk, German pianist and composer († 1983)
• 1903 » Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player and manager († 1991)
• 1904 » Marie-Anne Desmarest, French author († 1973)
• 1906 » Zinka Milanov, Croatian-American soprano and educator († 1989)

• 1880 » Ziya Pasha, Greek author and translator (b. 1826)
• 1886 » John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded the Deere & Company (b. 1804)
• 1888 » Giacomo Zanella, Italian priest and poet (b. 1820)
• 1911 » Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist (b. 1862)
• 1917 » Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (b. 1829)
• 1917 » Clara Ayres, American nurse (b. 1880)
• 1919 » Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist, author, and poet (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Karl Mantzius, Danish actor and director (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Dorothy Levitt, English racing driver and journalist (b. 1882)

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.
• 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.
• November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
• November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
• 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 May 17, 1901 was between 6.9 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (18%).