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• Alexandra May Perfitt, England († 1975)
• Alice († 1983)
• Adrianus van Loon, IJsselmonde, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• "Françoise" Anna Maria Emelia Andréa Beelaerts van Blokland, Utrecht, Pays-Bas († 1985)
• Akke de Jong, Drogeham, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1902)
• Alphons Jacobus Augustinus HERRINGS, Bergen op Zoom (NL/NB) († 1980)
• Dirkje Van Leijden, Alphen aan de Rijn († 1983)
• Wilmsen Christina, Merksplas, Antwerpen, België († 1966)
• * Dirk Gerrit de Bruijn, Heusden
• Abraham Klinkenberg, Delft

• Aart van de Weerdhof (0), Ede,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arrisje Baars (31), Maurik
• Anne de Vries (5), Hijkersmilde, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antje Meiles (68), Menaldum, Friesland, Niederlande
• Alice Jane ROLFE (13), Ticehurst, Rother, East Sussex
• Anna Stoffers, Peize, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Antje Harms Zuidema (50), Winschoten, Oldambt, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Pieter' Kroonenburg (70), Benningbroek
• Aalt van het Ende (10), Oldebroek
• Aaltje Ariensd Wink (0), Alblasserdam, zh.nld

• 1897 » Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen († 1980)
• 1897 » Morris Carnovsky, American actor († 1992)
• 1899 » Helen Creighton, Canadian author and educator († 1989)
• 1899 » Humphrey Cobb, American author and screenwriter († 1944)
• 1901 » Florence Eldridge, American actress († 1988)
• 1901 » Mario Scelba, Italian politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Italy († 1991)
• 1902 » Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1902 » Jean Dalrymple, American playwright, producer, manager, and publicist († 1998)
• 1904 » Vera Bradford, Australian pianist and educator († 2004)
• 1905 » Maurice Challe, French general († 1979)

• 1894 » George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (b. 1822)
• 1898 » Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
• 1901 » Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (b. 1853)
• 1902 » Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844)
• 1909 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist (b. 1864)
• 1912 » Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American general (b. 1845)
• 1917 » Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (b. 1872)
• 1920 » Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
• 1922 » Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)

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 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
• July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
• September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
• October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
• 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 September 5, 1901 was between 6.4 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (57%).