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• Adrianus Advocaat, Delft († 1928)
• Antonia Hendrina Willems, Overasselt, Gelderland, Nederland († 1968)
• Albert de Greef, Almen
• Anthonius Henricus van den Broek, Valkenswaard
• Antoinetta Anna Hendrica Maria de Nijs, amsterdam, Nederland
• Mulders, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1914)
• Aafje Jacoba de Ruijter, Sloten, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van Meerendonk, Den Haag
• Adrianus Johannes van Meerendonk, 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• Adrianus Gerardus Gulickx, Gilze en Rijen († 1961)

• Aaltje Bliekendaal (64), Utrecht
• Apolonia Verhulst (66), Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina van de Sande (64), Schijndel
• Catharina, Elisabeth Beltzer (75), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta Jansen (0), Borkel en Schaft
• Catherine Steel (77), Clifton, Fairfax, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina van der Sanden (64), Schijndel
• Appolonia van der Hulst (Verhulst) (65), Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Apollonia Verhulst (66), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Antje Mos (23), Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands

• 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)
• 1914 » Brendan Gill, American journalist and essayist († 1997)
• 1914 » Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia († 2003)
• 1916 » George Sidney, American director and producer († 2002)
• 1916 » Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host († 2006)
• 1916 » Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1917 » Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1967)
• 1918 » Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)

• 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)
• 1944 » Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
• 1946 » Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (b. 1878)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
• March 1 » The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
• April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
• July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
• August 4 » In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
• October 9 » World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
• December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

The temperature on October 4, 1914 was between 7.9 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.