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• Alvin Dean Ballew, Simpsonville, Greenville, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1984)
• Adrianus Philippus Onderwater, Hof van Delft († 1978)
• Aaltje Vunderink, Hengelo
• Alma HART, Missouri († 1971)
• Anna BUIS, Venhuizen († 1982)
• "Paul" André Joseph Candillon, Montcornet, Aisne, France († 1981)
• Aaltje Hakkers, Heemse, Overijssel, Nederland († 1905)
• Anna Berendina van Aalst
• Anna Berendina van Aalst, Gendringen, Nederland
• Adrianus Arnoldus Antonius Bink, Raamsdonksveer, Provincie Noord Brabant Nederland († 1979)

• Anna Angela Eiken (88), Horsten (D.)
• Anna Maria KLAASEN (81), Ravenstein
• Adriana Bolleman (85), Terneuzen
• Anna Angelina, Engeline Eikens (88), Horsten gem. Onstwedde
• Anna Angela (Engeline) Eikens (88)
• Anna Angelina Eikens- (88), Horsten, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Van Tuijl (80), Jaarsveld, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Berendina Geurtsen (70), Hattem
• Aaltje Kruimink (0), Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Berendina Slagter (73), Zwartsluis, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1898 » Preston Sturges, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1901 » Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee († 1986)
• 1904 » Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1905 » Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist († 1941)
• 1905 » Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player († 1979)
• 1910 » Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic († 1985)
• 1911 » John Charnley, British orthopedic surgeon († 1982)
• 1912 » Barry Sullivan, American actor († 1994)
• 1912 » Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean runner († 2002)
• 1912 » Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer († 2016)

• 1866 » Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
• 1877 » Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 » Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
• 1891 » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 » William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
• 1904 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b.1866)
• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
• 1930 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
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 5.3 million citizens.
• January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
• June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
• July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
• July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
• November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

The temperature on August 29, 1903 was between 12.4 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (54%).