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• Adriaan Henri Barends, Sloten († 1985)
• Anastasia Nicolajevna of Russia, Peterhof († 1918)
• Alicia Borges, São Joaquim, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Albert Antonides, Tietjerksteradeel
• Adrianus Eekelen, van, Etten-Leur († 1987)
• Aaltje Mulder, Essen (Barneveld) († 1988)
• Anastasia Nicolajevna van Rusland, Peterhof († 1918)
• Alberdina Wilhelmina Rovers, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1968)
• Albert Jan Bijsterbosch, Heerde {GE} († 1950)

• Anna Catharina Johanna Gits (74), Zundert, Noord Brabant
• Antje Kieft (71), Ilpendam, Waterland,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annechien Vos (0), Wildervank
• Allegonda Nieuwenhuizen van den (57), Waspik
• Betje Robbers (23), Leiden
• Andrew Prettyman Moore (68), Lawrence, Clearfield, Pennsylvania
• Abraham Boom (0), Waddinxveen
• Andreas van Straalen (62), 's-Gravenhage
• Arie Dekker (47), Gouda
• Baronnes Geertruijd Agnes van Haersolte van Haerst (40), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1894 » Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher and academic († 1976)
• 1895 » William Boyd, American actor and producer († 1972)
• 1895 » William Roberts, English soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1898 » Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director († 1936)
• 1898 » Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoe designer, founded Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. († 1960)
• 1899 » Otis Barton, American diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere († 1992)
• 1899 » Theippan Maung Wa, Burmese writer († 1942)
• 1900 » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1902 » Arthur Powell Davies, American minister, author, and activist († 1957)
• 1905 » Wayne Boring, American illustrator († 1987)

• 1899 » Antonio Luna, Filipino general (b. 1866)
• 1900 » Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1871)
• 1906 » Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (b. 1842)
• 1910 » O. Henry, American short story writer (b. 1862)
• 1913 » Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (b. 1851)
• 1916 » Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish-born British field marshal and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Rhoda Broughton, Welsh-English author (b. 1840)
• 1921 » Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
• 1921 » Will Crooks, English trade unionist and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (b. 1880)

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. Hendrikus
15. Arie
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.
• 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.
• April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
• August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
• September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
• October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
• December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

The temperature on June 5, 1901 was between 6.8 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (81%).