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• Adriana Johanna Olijhoek, Stompwijk († 1985)
• Aaltje Sander, Termunten, Groningen, Netherlands († 1974)
• Albert Jan Kers, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Marinus Justinus Maagdeleijn, Rotterdam († 1926)
• Amalia Selma van der WIJK, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Andries Veenstra, Hemrik, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrian Frederick ZWEMER, St. Croix, Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin († 1961)
• "Henri" Marie Léon René Formon, château d'Uzage, Huismes, Indre-et-Loire, France
• Aaltje (Sander) Sanders, Termunten, Delfzijl, Groningen, Netherlands († 1974)
• Albert Jan Kers, Epe († 1928)

• Abraham Rayner (93), Emu Plains, NSW
• Alexander Petrus Marie Zellekens (24), Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jelles Kerkstra (76), Akkrum, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Stuij (55), Sliedrecht, Nederland
• van Opdorp (0), Terheijden
• Antonius de Vos (0), Amsterdam
• Anna Stuij (55)
• Arnoldus van der Sommen (76), Eindhoven
• Arie Kraaijkamp (71), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Mauriks (0), Sint-Michielsgestel

• 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)
• 1905 » Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1974)

• 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)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Wilhelmus
14. Dirk
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Adriana
7. Elisabeth
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Geertruida
13. Petronella
14. Grietje
15. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• 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 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.
• March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
• May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
• June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
• July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
• November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
• November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

The temperature on August 24, 1902 was between 13.4 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.8 °C.