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• Aaltje Arp, Meppel († 1976)
• Aarnout Meijer
• Adriaantje Kroes, ROTTERDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Ramakers, Bunde, Meerssen
• Aldegondis Gerardina Boussu, Alken (B) († 2002)
• Andreas Opgenoort, Susteren († 1904)
• Adriana Cornelia Maat, Krimpen aan de IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Mikkers, Apeldoorn († 1904)
• Cornelia de Lange, Alphen aan den Rijn
• Aloïse Loete, Waarschoot, Belgium († 1905)

• Alice Evelyn Hughston (45), McBain, Missaukee County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• annigje de sprong (despron, desprong) (72), alblasserdam
• Aede Lieuwes Hofstra (71), Stiens
• Piek, Eginius
• Anthonius Anthonie van Es (63), Rotterdam
• Annigje de Sprong (72), Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie (Antonij) van Santen (65), Beusichem
• Adriaan van Hest (87), Tilburg
• Anna Grada Mulder (48), Rotterdam
• Adriaantje Bakker, de (62), Dreischor gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL

• 1898 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician († 1945)
• 1902 » Harry Golden, Ukrainian-American journalist and author († 1981)
• 1902 » Max Ophüls, German-American director and screenwriter († 1957)
• 1903 » Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant († 1977)
• 1904 » Catherine Lacey, English actress († 1979)
• 1904 » Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)
• 1904 » Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic († 1984)
• 1905 » Philip N. Krasne, American lawyer and producer († 1999)
• 1906 » André Weil, French mathematician and academic († 1998)
• 1907 » Weeb Ewbank, American football player and coach († 1998)

• 1862 » Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1877 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
• 1882 » Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
• 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 1919 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)
• 1939 » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)

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 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
• May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
• October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.

The temperature on May 6, 1904 was between 4.6 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.