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• Adriaan Johannes Bekkers, Heer en Keer
• Honoré Jesoirens, Zuiddorpe (NL) († 1989)
• Beuming, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Kingma, Birdaard († 1991)
• Adriana Dik, Rotterdam († 2002)
• Abraham David Schrijver, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Adriaan Wesdorp, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1905)
• Alice Maria Debel, Boezinge
• Adrianus Wesdorp, Rotterdam († 1905)
• Adriana Anna Jacoba Posthumus, Breda

• Arie Versluis (72), Kedichem
• August Leonard Louis Depoorter (55), Woumen
• Catharina Wilhelmina Gordijn (31), Beverwijk
• van WENDEL, Blokzijl
• Bernardus Stephanus Scholten (9), Alstaette
• Camillus Josephus van Haelst (10), Westdorpe, Zeeland, Nederland
• Camiel Joseph van Haelst (10), Westdorpe, Zeeland, Nl
• Adriana Stam (55), IJsselmonde
• Aldert van der Molen (0), Loppersum
• Arie de Roos (50), Utrecht, Utr, NL

• 1902 » Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi († 1994)
• 1903 » Marion Aye, American actress († 1951)
• 1904 » Richard Eberhart, American poet and academic († 2005)
• 1906 » Albert Charles Smith, American botanist († 1999)
• 1906 » Fernando Germani, Italian organist († 1998)
• 1906 » Ted Morgan, New Zealand boxer († 1952)
• 1907 » Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai jurist († 2002)
• 1908 » Bette Davis, American actress († 1989)
• 1908 » Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India († 1986)
• 1908 » Kurt Neumann, German director († 1958)

• 1900 » Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)
• 1900 » Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (b. 1832)
• 1901 » Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (b. 1850)
• 1904 » Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (b. 1830)
• 1904 » Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer (b. 1822)
• 1906 » Eastman Johnson, American painter (b. 1824)
• 1914 » Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (b. 1851)
• 1918 » George Tupou II, King of Tonga (b. 1874)

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. Arie
15. Hendrikus
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.
• February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
• March 23 » Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
• April 4 » In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
• September 26 » Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
• 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 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

The temperature on April 5, 1905 was between 3.4 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.