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• Anna RIJPMA, Workum(Friesland)
• Adrianus Maria de Krom, Bergen Op Zoom, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1956)
• Raeman, Maldegem († 1901)
• Allert Johan Botter Fik, Hoogeveen,, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aartje van Haarlem, Buren
• Adriaan van LEERDAM, Nieuw-en Sint Joosland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Petrus BRUERS, Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1973)
• Achille Jean Dussart, Carvin, Dép. Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France († 1960)
• Adrianus Bakelaar, Den Bommel
• * Jan Aart van Ieperen, Vreeswijk († 1967)

• Alle Hofman (58), Hattem
• Aaltje Christiaans Schonewille (57), Vries
• Alwyn Quail Marshall (18), Grey Street, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Aaltje Schonewille (57), Vries, Nederland
• Abraham van Wijland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Cornelia Spijkers (1), Goirle
• Antonie Evert van Santen (0), Arnhem
• Arnoldus van Grinsven (5), Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aukje Begemann (48)
• Adriaantje Roos (0), Zevenhuizen, Zuidplas, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• 1897 » Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer († 1981)
• 1899 » Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer († 1963)
• 1902 » Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia († 1980)
• 1904 » Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia († 1918)
• 1904 » Idel Jakobson, Latvian-Estonian NKVD officer († 1997)
• 1904 » Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter († 2009)
• 1906 » Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach († 1985)
• 1906 » Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1907 » Gladys Bentley, American blues singer († 1960)
• 1907 » Joe Besser, American actor († 1988)

• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)

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.
• February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
• August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
• August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
• August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
• November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
• 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 August 12, 1901 was between 11.0 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (62%).