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• Anna van Mullekom, Helden, Limburg, Nederland
• Alberta Rijkhoff, Assendelft NH NL
• Albert Harmsen, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 1963)
• Albertus Cornelis van Haren, Zevenaar († 1980)
• Adrianus Gerardus Geers, Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Albert Jan Koenderink, Leeuwarderadeel († 1944)
• Albertus Cornelis van Haren, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland († 1980)
• Adrianus Johannes van Iersel, Vught
• Aloïs De Cauwer, Temse, België († 1975)
• Aartje Maria Grauwmeijer, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Arnoldus Adrianus van der Valk (51), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Jeanette Caharina Stadhouder (12)
• Arnold Joseph Hubert van Engelen (49), Roermond
• Antonetta Kop (40), Etten Leur
• Albert Eppe Holtkamp (85), Nieuwveen
• Adrianus (Godefridus) Terwindt (75), Arnhem
• Andrianus Godefridus Terwindt (75), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Asselina van Weeghel (86), Hattem, Nederland
• Adrianus Beers (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Asselina van Weegele (86), .........

• 1891 » Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina and educator († 1975)
• 1891 » R. Norris Williams, Swiss-American tennis player and banker († 1968)
• 1892 » Ernst Lubitsch, German American film director, producer, writer, and actor († 1947)
• 1895 » Muna Lee, American poet and author († 1965)
• 1901 » Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and broadcaster, founded the DuMont Television Network († 1965)
• 1901 » E. P. Taylor, Canadian businessman and horse breeder († 1989)
• 1903 » Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Russian-Israeli biochemist and philosopher († 1994)
• 1905 » Barnett Newman, American painter and etcher († 1970)
• 1906 » Joe Primeau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1989)
• 1913 » Victor Mature, American actor († 1999)

• 1870 » Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
• 1871 » Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786)
• 1888 » Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator (b. 1812)
• 1899 » Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)
• 1906 » Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• 1928 » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I (b. 1861)
• 1933 » Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
• 1934 » Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and politician, 130th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1871)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
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 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
• April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
• July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
• October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.

The temperature on January 29, 1903 was between 2.8 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (21%).