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• Noordtzij Liliane Frouwina Louisa, Kampen
• Anna Dombrowski, Michigan († 1996)
• Abraham Paes, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland x († 1943)
• Adriana Elisabeth van der Put, Dordrecht († 1995)
• Alfred Edward CRAM, Saint Louis, MO († 1946)
• Adrianus Span, Loon op Zand († 1905)
• Anna Maria Peek, IJsselstein, Provincie Utrecht, Nederland († 1975)
• Anna Maria Sneepers, Mheer, Limburg, Nederland
• Alida Hendrika Nieboer, Stadskanaal (gem. Wildervank),Groningen,Nederland
• Adriana Theodora van den Berg, Nieuwer Amstel, Amstelveen, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1989)

• Bonaventura Maximiliaan Arthur Vrijheer van Ohlen-Adlerscron (78), Wroclaw (Breslau), Neder-Silezië, Polen
• Salverda (37), Makkum, Friesland, Nederland
• agnieta johanna frederika miggels (0), valburg (Gelderland)
• Bernardus Henricus Scheeven (73), De Maten, Westerwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Elisabeth KNOOP (73), Amsterdam
• Baltus Burgman (79), amersfoort
• Ann Eliza Watson (79), Bridgewater, TAS, Australia
• Albert ter Horst, Emmen
• Christian August Heinrich (August) Lühert (74), Bösinghausen
• Bernardus Hermannus Scheeven (73), Maten

• 1898 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer († 1991)
• 1898 » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer († 1999)
• 1899 » James Cagney, American actor and dancer († 1986)
• 1900 » Marcel Dalio, French actor († 1983)
• 1901 » Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author († 1938)
• 1901 » Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver († 1994)
• 1901 » Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine († 1982)
• 1902 » Christina Stead, Australian author and academic († 1983)
• 1905 » William Gargan, American actor († 1979)
• 1910 » James Coyne, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada († 2012)

• 1883 » Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)
• 1885 » Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 » Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1894 » Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
• 1907 » Hector Malot, French author and critic (b. 1830)
• 1912 » Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)
• 1918 » Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family

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 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
• June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
• August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
• 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.

The temperature on July 17, 1904 was between 10.6 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.