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• Adriaan van Dam, oud-beijerland (zuid holland)
• Aaltje Bos, Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alice Kate Binions, Rathduff, Killann, Wexford, Ireland († 1943)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Geels, Alkmaar († 1953)
• Adriana Moeliker, Rilland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1902)
• Antje de Vries, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• antoinetta HOLLAAR, oud-beijerland († 1962)
• Antonia Gijsberta Plugers, Hedel, Nederland († 1902)
• Anthonia Martha van Aken, Vlissingen
• ALBERT JOZEF STRYBOL, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1976)

• Albert van Dee (71), Echteld
• Anna Margaretha Dirks (59), Groningen, Nederland
• Anthonetta Johanna Maria de Bruijn (23), Hulst, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Dijk (58), Ginneken en Bavel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Thérèse (Anna Theresia) Deseck (78), Lille, Nord, France
• Albert van 't Hul (0), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Dirks (59), groningen
• Aaltje Koster (3), Dedemsvaart
• Anje Willems Wiegers (88), Stadskanaal, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Verhoef (76), Utrecht

• 1898 » Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian († 2015)
• 1898 » Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1976)
• 1900 » Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps († 1974)
• 1900 » Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor († 1944)
• 1901 » Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg († 1971)
• 1901 » Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator († 1970)
• 1904 » Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian († 1984)
• 1905 » László Benedek, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer († 1992)
• 1908 » Fritz Fischer, German historian and author († 1999)
• 1908 » Irving Fiske, American author and playwright († 1990)

• 1876 » Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)
• 1893 » Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
• 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1895 » Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
• 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
• 1929 » David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)
• 1935 » Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877)

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 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
• April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
• May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
• May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
• July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
• December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

The temperature on March 5, 1902 was between -1.1 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (84%).