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• Albert Llewellyn Bennett († 1980)
• Aart Kranenburg, Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alje Melle KOOI, Uithuizermeeden († 1996)
• Adriana Maria Johanna Trouwborst, Schiedam
• Abraham J. Vos, Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1962)
• Aart Hendriksz. Breukhoven, Rotterdam
• Aatje (Alice) Hoogland, Weststellingwerf,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland († 1987)
• Aaltje Jaspers, Beerzerveld
• Aaltina Grooten, Exloërmond (Drenthe) († 1993)
• Adriana Mol, Rucphen (Rucphen) (Noord-Brabant)

• Albert Vierhuizen (79), Oldebroek (Gld) Nederland
• Antonia Verheijen (71), Asten, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Albert Vierhuis (Vierhuizen) (79), Oldebroek
• Anna Bonsema (80), Groningen
• (79), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmus Rieff (45), Zwolle, Overijssel (NL.)
• Anthonie Dirk van Luijn (67), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Albert Albertus Schaapman (0), Hasselt gem. Zwartewaterland Ov. NL
• Albert Warners (0), Roden, Nederland
• Annigje Guichelaar (0), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1895 » Bert Lahr, American actor († 1967)
• 1895 » István Barta, Hungarian water polo player († 1948)
• 1898 » Jean Borotra, French tennis player († 1994)
• 1898 » Regis Toomey, American actor († 1991)
• 1899 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer († 1980)
• 1902 » Felix Wankel, German engineer († 1988)
• 1904 » Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician († 1999)
• 1904 » Margaret Tafoya, Native American Pueblo potter († 2001)
• 1906 » Art Shires, American baseball player and boxer († 1967)
• 1906 » Chuck Carroll, American football player and lawyer († 2003)

• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903)

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.
• May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
• June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
• September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
• September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
• 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.
• November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.

The temperature on August 13, 1901 was between 9.7 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (38%).