About the day » Friday August 11, 1905Calender converter

• Staps, Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1905)
• Adriana Spek, Gouda († 1985)
• ADRIANA CORNELIA VAN DEN BERG, VLAARDINGEN († 1960)
• Anna Alberdina VAN MOURIK, Hilversum, 1200, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Anna M. Nymeyer, USA († 1970)
• Brakels, Vlagtwedde († 1905)
• Anna Godefrida Maria barones van Hugenpoth tot Aerdt, Boxtel,Gemeente Boxtel,North Brabant,Netherlands († 1917)
• van Houtum, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Nymeyer, Washington († 1970)
• Aileen Dumonchel, Canada († 1999)

• (Stillborn) GIDDING (0), Valburg Gelderland Netherlands
• Auguste Victor de Wautier (81), Bruges Ste Croix
• Anna Cornelisdr. van der Star (40), Spijkenisse
• Adriana (Antje) de Munnik (79), Schiedam, Nederland
• Cornelia van Kuilenborg (76), Zoelmond, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aalt van den Akker (77), Nijkerk
• Staps (0), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernard Heinrich Wösten (1), Fehndorf, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Aaltje Eltina Kruze (16), Veendam
• Alida Maat (61), Waalwijk

• 1900 » Charley Paddock, American sprinter († 1943)
• 1902 » Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist († 1986)
• 1902 » Lloyd Nolan, American actor († 1985)
• 1905 » Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat († 1998)
• 1905 » Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic († 2002)
• 1907 » Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer and lawyer († 1989)
• 1908 » Don Freeman, American author and illustrator († 1978)
• 1908 » Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher († 1999)
• 1909 » Uku Masing, Estonian philosopher and theologian († 1985)
• 1909 » Yūji Koseki, Japanese composer († 1989)

• 1886 » Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1843)
• 1890 » John Henry Newman, English cardinal and theologian (b. 1801)
• 1892 » Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813)
• 1903 » Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)
• 1908 » Khudiram Bose, Indian Bengali revolutionary (b. 1889)
• 1919 » Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Mary Sumner, English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (b. 1828)
• 1936 » Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1885)
• 1937 » Edith Wharton, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1862)
• 1939 » Jean Bugatti, German-Italian engineer (b. 1909)

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.
• February 5 » In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
• May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
• October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• 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)
• December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

The temperature on August 11, 1905 was between 11.2 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.