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• Aaltje Jacoba van Dijk, Rhenen († 1959)
• Adriana Maria Broos, Steenbergen († 2000)
• Albert Zwolsman († 1980)
• * Adrianus Bekkers, Boxtel († 1980)
• Adriana Maria Broos, Steenbergen (Steenbergen en Kruisland) (Noord-Brabant) († 1965)
• * Abra Bakkeren, Zwartewaal († 1988)
• Adrianus Bekkers, Boxtel († 1980)
• Adrianus Bernardus Biemans, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1905)
• Albert Geusenbroek, Sijbekarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Haasnoot, Katwijk († 1973)

• Aafke Hendriks Kuikenga (62)
• Adrianus Voeten (69), Meer, Hoogstraten, Antwerpen, België
• Anna Wilhelmina Paulina Rueck (47), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana Slob (62), Giessen-Nieuwkerk
• Adrianus MEYVISCH (86), Schoten, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Abraham Jacob Janzen (45)
• Aaltien Egberts (38), Almelo
• Aafke Kuikenga (62), oudeschip, Groningen, Nederland
• Jan Boonstoppel (81), Vianen
• Adrianus Meyvisch (86), Schoten

• 1900 » W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic († 1993)
• 1902 » Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager († 1963)
• 1904 » Christian Pineau, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1995)
• 1904 » Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union († 1978)
• 1906 » Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist († 1975)
• 1906 » Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood († 1949)
• 1907 » Allan Jones, American actor and singer († 1992)
• 1909 » Bernd Rosemeyer, German racing driver († 1938)
• 1909 » Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter and producer († 1996)
• 1909 » Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander († 2000)

• 1911 » John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
• 1923 » Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1929 » Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)
• 1930 » Samuel van Houten, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (b. 1837)
• 1942 » Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1943 » Sobibór uprising:
• 1944 » Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1953 » Émile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1877)
• 1953 » Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (b. 1882)

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.
• February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
• 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.
• August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
• December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

The temperature on October 14, 1904 was between 0.2 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.