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• Albner Dewey Culbreth, Alabama († 1979)
• Adille Camille Crombez, Bikschote († 1903)
• Anna Catharina Francisca Kuijken, Bergeijk
• Angelina Isabella van Damme, Ossenisse,, Zeeland, Nederland († 1992)
• Adriaan de Lange, Nieuw Lekkerland († 1904)
• Achille GRIMONPREZ, Tourcoing, 59599, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France († 1974)
• Adriana van Honschoten, Bennebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Smallenbroek, Assen
• Aaltje van der Kaap, Nieuw-Weerdinge († 1902)
• Adriana Francina Damen, Loon op Zand († 1985)

• Aaltje BODDEKE (77), Monnickendam, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Franciscus Kamps (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Kennepohl (85), Nieuw Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje de Koning (72), Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abraham Kruse (0), Enschede
• Abraham~Annes de Haas (76), Frjentsjer
• Adrianus Tak (77), Roosendaal
• Alida Klasina Snoeks (48), Haarlem
• Adrianus Gijsbers (6), Hooge en Lage Mierde
• Alida (Aaltje) Boddeke (77), Monnickendam, Gemeente Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland 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 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.
• April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
• May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
• July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
• August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
• 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.

The temperature on October 4, 1902 was between -1.7 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (29%).