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• Adrianus (Arie) Kool, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1980)
• Alexandra Hendrika Lemstra, Amsterdam
• AALTJE SCHOEMAN, Geld.Veen († 1938)
• Albertina Claes, Vorselaar
• Afina Wilhelmina Veenstra († 2003)
• Adriana de Ruiter, 's-Gravenhage
• Aaltje Hoving, Nieuwe-Compagnie, Hoogezand
• Adriana Engelina Theresia VAN IERSEL, Den Haag, ZH, Nederland
• Abraham Hoogesteger, Wemeldinge († 1981)
• Aartje van Steenoven, Schiedam († 1964)

• Aaltien Lamberts (39), De Wijk, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anthonetta Vink (87), Oud-Beijerland
• Anthonetta Vink (87), oud-beijerland (zuid holland)
• Anna Verhagen (72), Nieuw Vossemeer
• Anthonia Verwoert (0), Langbroek
• Abraham Gerrit Wijnschenk (88), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonij Kruithof (61), Heinenoord, Binnenmaas, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna SCOTHORN (81)
• Adriana Alida Liduina Maria Meijer (6), Schiedam
• Antje Machiels Boonstra (65), Barradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1896 » Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor († 1960)
• 1899 » Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer († 1972)
• 1904 » Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader († 1944)
• 1904 » Paul Hartman, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1973)
• 1905 » Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress, singer, and dancer († 2000)
• 1906 » Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam († 2000)
• 1909 » Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot († 1942)
• 1909 » Winston Sharples, American pianist and composer († 1978)
• 1910 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2002)
• 1910 » David Niven, English soldier and actor († 1983)

• 1875 » Tristan Corbière, French poet and educator (b. 1845)
• 1882 » Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1818)
• 1884 » Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1820)
• 1906 » José María de Pereda, Spanish author (b. 1833)
• 1911 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
• 1920 » John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Pichichi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
• 1932 » Frank Teschemacher, American Jazz musician (b. 1906)
• 1936 » Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (b. 1871)

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.
• January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
• February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
• June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
• June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

The temperature on March 1, 1904 was between -3.4 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -1.6 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.