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• Albert Bakker, Finsterwolde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Adriana Christina Merkx, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)
• Mienis, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1902)
• "Wilhelmine Aloysia Karoline" Sidonie Marie Josepha Adelheid Hedwig von Schönburg-Glauchau, Glauchau, Allemagne († 1964)
• Alberta Marinus, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Bakker, Finsterwolde, Groningen, Nederland († 1968)
• Adrianus Cornelis van Dongen, Gilze en Rijen († 1968)
• Adriana Van der Leer, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cunera Strik, Lierop, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1983)
• Ale Aans Algra, Leeuwarderadeel († 1970)

• Albert Meijer (63), Dalen
• Aron Morpurgo (78), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arij LOOS,VAN DER (80), Maasland,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Mienis (0), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Dirk Jeremias Pietersz. Mieog (82), Leiden
• Adriana Maria Collesaer (56), Boschkapelle
• Adriaan Van de Lisdonck (86), Hilvarenbeek, 5081, Nederland
• Anna Mellema (62), Hoogezand
• Adrianus BRUGMAN (74), Tuil
• Anna Maria Berthilia Helaers (56), Zepperen, België

• 1898 » Eileen Sedgwick, American actress († 1991)
• 1898 » Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator († 1998)
• 1900 » C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor († 1932)
• 1900 » Jean Arthur, American actress († 1991)
• 1900 » Yvor Winters, American critic and poet († 1968)
• 1901 » Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator († 1973)
• 1902 » Irene Ryan, American actress († 1973)
• 1903 » Andrei Grechko, Soviet general († 1976)
• 1903 » Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter († 1940)
• 1905 » Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly († 1996)

• 1868 » Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
• 1887 » Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
• 1889 » Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
• 1893 » Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
• 1910 » Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
• 1918 » Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
• 1928 » Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
• 1937 » J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)

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

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

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
• January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
• March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
• April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
• April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
• November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
• December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

The temperature on October 17, 1902 was between 5.5 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%).