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• Aaltje van der Kruk, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Gijsbert de Joode, (GL) Lingewaal († 1901)
• Andries Bostelaar, Vlissingen († 1960)
• Aafje Keij, Leiden († 1903)
• Adriaan Melis, Zoutelande, Zeeland, NL († 1978)
• Albert Jan Schultink, Hattem
• Anna Barbara Damas, Maastricht
• Aaltje Ariensd Wink, Alblasserdam, zh.nld († 1901)
• Adriana Frederica Baars, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
• Aaltje Veen, Westerbroek, gem Hoogezand, Nederland, Groningen, Nederland († 1901)

• Anne Eites Veenstra (60), Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Janse (2), Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
• Arie Hoogeveen (24), Hoevelaken, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Arie Hoogeveen (24), Hoevelaken, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arij Verschuur (65), Vrijenban
• Arie Hoogeveen (24), Hoevelaken, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Joseph BLEUZÉ (0), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Hoven (66), Loon op Zand
• Catharina STAMMEN (74), Helden, Limburg, Netherlands
• Arij Verschuur (65), Vrijenban

• 1896 » Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist († 1980)
• 1896 » Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher († 1980)
• 1899 » P. L. Travers, Australian-English author and actress († 1996)
• 1901 » Charles Farrell, American actor and singer († 1990)
• 1902 » Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Russian general and politician († 1984)
• 1902 » Zino Francescatti, French violinist († 1991)
• 1905 » Leo Genn, British actor and barrister († 1978)
• 1909 » Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat († 1944)
• 1909 » Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, Indian scholar, author, and academic († 1992)
• 1909 » Willa Beatrice Player, American educator, first Black woman college president († 2003)

• 1861 » Vincent Novello, English composer and publisher (b. 1781)
• 1886 » Samuel Ferguson, Irish lawyer and poet (b. 1810)
• 1910 » Huo Yuanjia, Chinese martial artist, co-founded the Chin Woo Athletic Association (b. 1868)
• 1919 » Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer and educator (b. 1857)
• 1920 » Samuel Griffith, Welsh-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Queensland (b. 1845)
• 1932 » John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Edith Stein, German nun and saint (b. 1891)
• 1943 » Chaim Soutine, Belarusian-French painter and educator (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Harry Hillman, American runner and coach (b. 1881)
• 1945 » Robert Hampton Gray, Canadian lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)

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 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
• February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
• February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
• July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
• September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
• November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.

The temperature on August 9, 1901 was between 14.4 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (64%).