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• Berensen, Erica, Drenthe, Nederland († 1985)
• Alida Paaij, Wervershoof, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Adrianus Gerrit Rijsdijk, Rotterdam, Nederland
• Alida van Zelst, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Martinus van Kruisselberge, Tilburg Netherlands († 1960)
• Adrianus Petrus Michael van Aalst, Standdaarbuiten, Nederland
• Adriaan Neerhout, Rotterdam († 1982)
• Alida van Soest, Ochten
• Aart van Haarlem, (GL) Buren
• Albert Esselink, Lemperhoek (Borculo) († 1901)

• Aaltje PERSOON (64), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries ELZEVIER (3), Rotterdam
• Adriaantje Van HAM (86), Dordrecht
• Annegien de Vries (69), Hoogersmilde, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Leyten (79), Ossendrecht
• Adrianus Leijten (79), Ossendrecht (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Adonie DECAESTECKER (0), Wervik, Wervik, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Specken (0), City of Beardsley, Big Stone, Minnesota, United States
• Abel Salomoninpoika Moisio (37), Viitasaari, Finland
• Anna Margaretha Sanders (1), Oude Pekela

• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1899 » Gaylord DuBois, American author and poet († 1993)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)
• 1900 » Maria Zubreeva, Soviet painter, graphic artist, and designer († 1991)
• 1901 » Preston Foster, American actor († 1970)
• 1902 » Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss († 1976)
• 1902 » Fernand Braudel, French historian and academic († 1985)
• 1903 » Karl Hanke, German businessman and politician († 1945)
• 1904 » Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell († 1986)

• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)

• 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 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
• 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.
• June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
• 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 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
• October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

The temperature on August 24, 1901 was between 8.2 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (64%).