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• Brand, Barger-Oosterveld, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1901)
• Anna Maria VOS, Rillaar Vlaams Brabant *
• Adrianus Jozef van den Berg, Noordwijk († 1976)
• Adrianus Jozef van den Berg, Noordwijk
• Aaltje Konijn, Sint Pancras, Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1901)
• Adrianus Vermeulen, Waarder († 1985)
• Adrianus Joseph van den Berg, Noordwijk († 1976)
• Aaltje Konijn-, Sint Pancras, Nederland († 1901)
• Adriaan Johannes Bustraan, Rotterdam († 1901)
• Anna Blanche May, N.Carolina († 1943)

• Akke Jans Roorda (21), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham van der Klooster (67), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Abraham Andriessen (78), Middelburg
• "Ernst" Hubert Joseph Maria von Mirbach-Harff (56), Düsseldorf, Allemagne
• Allardus Hermanus Cornelius Peletier (65), Antwerpen, België
• Aart Hagendijk (58), Ridderkerk
• Aagje Klein (32), Noordwijk
• Amelia Vergote, Rollegem-Kapelle,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Albert Boon, 's Gravenzande
• Brand (0), Barger-Oosterveld, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1894 » Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-English actress, singer and writer († 1989)
• 1894 » Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1897 » Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1957)
• 1899 » Douglas Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Defence († 1987)
• 1902 » Harry Kadwell, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1999)
• 1903 » Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer († 2003)
• 1904 » Hubert Opperman, Australian cyclist and politician († 1996)
• 1905 » Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright († 1994)
• 1906 » T. H. White, Indian-English author († 1964)
• 1907 » Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician († 2002)

• 1892 » Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
• 1896 » Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and academic (b. 1814)
• 1903 » Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 » W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (b. 1853)
• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1917 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 » Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)

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 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
• 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.
• May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
• 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.
• November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.

The temperature on May 29, 1901 was between 7.9 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (74%).