August 30 - Jacobus van 't Hoff (died 1911), Dutch chemist.

Kees Posthumus (16 June 1902 - 15 September 1972) was a Dutch chemist.

This was because it came together with chlorine to make the oil of the Dutch chemists.

This hypothesis was put forward in the same year by the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff.

Believed to have been invented by a Dutch chemist and alchemist named Sylvius de Bouve, it was first sold as a medicine in the late 16th century.

Others, like the Dutch chemist Jan Ingenhousz, who investigated light, air and plants, are more obscure.

October 10 - Christophorus Buys Ballot, Dutch chemist and meteorologist (d. 1890)

Theo M. Smit (born 4 July 1975) is a Dutch chemist who has made several contributions to the field of polymerization catalysis.

Hubert Schoemaker, 55, Dutch chemist, co-founder of Centocor, brain cancer.

March 1 - Jacobus van 't Hoff (born 1852), Dutch chemist.