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• Adrianus Maria Martina Johanna van Boekel, Empel († 1902)
• Adrianus in 't Hout, Rotterdam
• Alberta Teunissen, Rheden
• Adolf QUINTELIER, Hamme,9220,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1926)
• Alberta Christina Teunissen, Rheden, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Hoekstra, Doniaga, Friesland, Nederland († 1901)
• Adrianus Johannes Wagemakers, 's-Grevelduin Capelle
• Alfeno Almeida Corrêa, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil († 1971)
• Aaltje Rijkeboer, Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alexandrine Alplhonsine Marie Jeanne DARMON, Oran, Oranie, ALGÉRIE

• Alida Jantina Auwina Schrage (1), Heiligerlee, Groningen, Nederland
• Antone Johannes Stephanus PRETORIUS (2), Kroonstad Camp, Ofs, South Africa
• Berend Forsten (59), Wildervank
• Américo Carlos de Mariz e Barros (38), Brasil
• Antje Yedes Tamminga (69)
• Sterk (0), Utrecht
• Adriaan de Feijter (75), Axel, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherland
• Apolonia Vleeschouwer (83), Boschkapelle, Hulst, Zld, NL
• Adriana Jansen (70), Chaam
• Anna Kornelia van Dijk (19), Boskoop, Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1895 » Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer († 1966)
• 1895 » Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy († 1944)
• 1896 » Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I († 1964)
• 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)

• 1864 » Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
• 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)

• 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
• January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
• August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
• October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
• October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
• November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.

The temperature on October 4, 1901 was between 7.8 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (15%).