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• Alberdina Hesselink, Den Ham († 1987)
• Amy Louise AGAR, Ringwood Hampshire England U.K († 1983)
• Adriana Maria van der Ham, Haarlem
• Alma Marie King, Muscatine County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Anna Elisabeth Lichtenberg, Vlissingen
• Anna Maria Ludovica van Rooy, Poppel († 1963)
• Anna Adriana van Zalen, Vlissingen Zeeland Nederland († 1906)
• Aleida Berendina Hietbrink, Voorst († 1967)
• Albert Edward Hill, Camberwell, London, England († 1966)
• Andreas Johannes Beijerbergen van Henegouwen, Den Haag

• Cornelia VERAART (85), Wouw (N.Br. Nl)
• Antonia Martina Bader (0), Noordwijkerhout
• Bernard Jacques AERNOUT (73), Hondschoote (59122) Frankrijk
• Catharina Maria de Wit (0), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles Edward HENDRY (46), Ft. Green
• Adriana van de Ven (77), Zeelst
• Alida Cornelia Dammuller, Enkhuizen
• Agnes Margaretha Hendriks (69), Nederasselt (Overasselt)
• Agnes Margaretha Hendriks (67), Nederasselt, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina van de Braek, 's-Hertogenbosch

• 1900 » August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright († 1987)
• 1903 » Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician († 1993)
• 1903 » Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general († 1946)
• 1903 » John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff-Berry computer († 1995)
• 1903 » Pierre Garbay, French general († 1980)
• 1906 » Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician († 1996)
• 1907 » Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic († 1994)
• 1910 » Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author († 1956)
• 1910 » Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach († 2002)
• 1913 » Martial Célestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti († 2011)

• 1867 » Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1871 » Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
• 1890 » Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1903 » Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
• 1904 » Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
• 1904 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1910 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
• June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
• September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
• October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
• November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
• December 15 » The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.

The temperature on October 4, 1905 was between 6.5 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.