About the day » Monday May 2, 1904Calender converter

• Andreas Josephus Duverger, Sint-Niklaas († 1998)
• Anna (Annie May) Veenstra (Venstra), Chicago, Cook, Illinois († 1985)
• Anna Frank, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1943)
• Alton Byron Blackburn, Loa, Wayne County, Utah († 1976)
• Adriana Maria van Rijn, OVERSCHIE (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1985)
• Ada Bell Keith, Walthall, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 1949)
• Anna Maria Janssen, Spaubeek, Limburg, Netherlands († 1973)
• Abram Kraaijenoord, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1904)
• a.w. van den hoek († 1994)
• Anna Maria Hamers, Simpelveld, Limburg, Nederland († 1905)

• (Stillborn) LICH (0), Vlagtwedde Groningen Netherlands
• Anne Catharine Smisdom (54), Gelinden, België
• Arij van den Berg (71), Maasland, 3155, Nederland
• Arnoldus Smeets (58), Posterholt, Nederland
• August Jacke \ Jacké (45), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Annetje Ouwehand (46), Katwijk
• Arie van den Berg (71), Maasland
• Aalt van de Brug (1), Nijkerk, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Antonetta Johanna van der Lee (1), Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anje Vennema (49), Middelstum

• 1901 » Bob Wyatt, English cricketer († 1995)
• 1901 » Edouard Zeckendorf, Belgian doctor, army officer and mathematician († 1983)
• 1901 » Willi Bredel, German writer († 1964)
• 1902 » Brian Aherne, English actor († 1986)
• 1902 » Werner Finck, German Kabarett comedian, actor and author († 1978)
• 1903 » Benjamin Spock, American rower, pediatrician, and author († 1998)
• 1904 » Bill Brandt, German-English photographer and journalist († 1983)
• 1905 » Alan Rawsthorne, British composer († 1971)
• 1905 » Charlotte Armstrong, American author († 1969)
• 1906 » Philippe Halsman, Latvian-American photographer († 1979)

• 1880 » Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817)
• 1915 » Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)
• 1918 » Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1889)
• 1925 » Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (b. 1898)
• 1925 » Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1927 » Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)

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 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
• May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
• October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
• December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
• 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.
• 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 May 2, 1904 was between 8.6 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.