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• Anna Maria Gertrudis Sprankenis, Molenbeerseld († 1905)
• Andries Petrus PRETORIUS
• Anna Maria Gertrudis Sprankenis, Molenbeersel († 1905)
• Aleida Koersen, Almelo
• ALPHONSUS JOANNES VAN DE VEL, Schilde († 1905)
• Agatha Maria Johanna Jurgens, Rotterdam
• Alida Johanna Bal, scheveningen († 1996)
• Adrianus Jacobus van Meel, Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annigje De HEER, Papendrecht († 1977)
• Allerdina Engelina Basseleur, Amsterdam († 1968)

• Abraham Haars (40), IJzendijke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Hendrina van der Beek (85), Haarlemmermeer
• Berend Delke (38), Grasdorf, Veldhausen, Bentheim, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Agatha Cornelia Out (0), Sloten, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonina Bakker (70), Zaamslag, Zeeland, Nederland
• Catharina Josina van Erp, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Alewijnse (43), Middelburg (Zeeland)
• Bartholomeus Wilhelmus Petrus Hoven van den (0), Oosterhout
• Cornelia Bastiaansen (61), Teteringen (Breda), Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Arie van Iterson (19), Rijnsburg

• 1898 » Preston Sturges, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1901 » Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee († 1986)
• 1904 » Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1905 » Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist († 1941)
• 1905 » Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player († 1979)
• 1910 » Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic († 1985)
• 1911 » John Charnley, British orthopedic surgeon († 1982)
• 1912 » Barry Sullivan, American actor († 1994)
• 1912 » Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean runner († 2002)
• 1912 » Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer († 2016)

• 1866 » Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
• 1877 » Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 » Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
• 1891 » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 » William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
• 1904 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b.1866)
• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
• 1930 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)

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.
• March 23 » Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
• April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
• June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
• 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.
• November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

The temperature on August 29, 1905 was between 12.2 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.