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• Adriana Wilhelmina Margaretha van Veen, Beusichem (Buren) (GL) († 1973)
• Abraham Polak, Amsterdam (NL) († 1944)
• Alida de Jong, Pernis
• Aaltje Klok, Rockanje
• Adrianus Verheyen, Meer, België († 1998)
• Adrianus Roijendijk, Mill en St. Hubert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1944)
• Andries (Andreas) van Gennep, Zwolle († 1965)
• Johanna Zwiggelaar, Hollandscheveld
• Anna Adriana de Waard, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 1933)
• Adriaan Izaak de Jonge, Zaamslag (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland

• Agnes, Gfn zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (61), Hohensolms, Hessen, Germany
• Aagje Weel (75), Aalsmeer
• Agnes van Stolberg Wernigerode (61), Hohensolms
• van de Lagemaat, Woudenberg
• Annagien de Vries (44), Hardenberg
• Anna Catharina van Tichelt (78), Hoogstraten
• Barbara Maria BOECKX (77), Nieuwrode Vlaams Brabant *
• (Stillborn) KITS (0), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Agnes zu Stolberg-Wernigerode zu STOLBERG (62), Hohensolms, Hessen, Deutschland
• Aagje de Boer (14), Wognum, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1899 » Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico († 1967)
• 1900 » Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress († 1971)
• 1901 » The Duke of Paducah, American country comedian, radio host and banjo player († 1986)
• 1903 » Faith Bennett, British actress and ATA pilot during WWII († 1969)
• 1903 » Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor († 1991)
• 1905 » Édouard Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and politician, Postmaster General of Canada († 1994)
• 1907 » Katharine Hepburn, American actress († 2003)
• 1907 » Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1908 » Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-English economist († 1986)
• 1910 » James Dudley, American baseball player, wrestling manager and executive († 2004)

• 1864 » J. E. B. Stuart, American general (b. 1833)
• 1867 » Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1876 » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
• 1878 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1884 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
• 1916 » James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1874)
• 1931 » Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1867)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
• April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
• May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

The temperature on May 12, 1904 was between -1.1 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.