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• (Stillbirth) VAN DER HEIDE, Uithuizen († 1902)
• Albertus van Ham, Best
• Anna de Boer, Blesdijke
• Albertus van Ham, Best
• Anna Dam, Boevenknijpe
• Anje Boukema, Noordbroek († 1986)
• Adrianus Cornelus Zijlmans., Loon op Zand,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1903)
• Aaltje Petronella Jongejan, Boskoop
• Adrianus Cornelis Zijlmans, Loon op Zand († 1903)
• Andries Cornelis Besselsen, Harderwijk

• Anna Wever (1), Berkhout, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria BOERE (3), Hoenkoop, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana van DIJK (69), Rotterdam (Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands)
• Alida Plaizier (1), Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Aaltje van Randeraat (76), Vreeland
• Adriana van Dijk (69), Delfshaven, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Boere (3), Hoenkoop, Oudewater, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Nijboer Nijeboer (56), Stad Almelo
• Anna Henniphof (64), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Sebregts (68), Wouw, Noord Brabant, Nederland

• 1897 » Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer († 1983)
• 1897 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian philosopher and educator († 1981)
• 1897 » Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright († 1975)
• 1899 » Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach († 1958)
• 1903 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator († 1976)
• 1903 » Morgan Taylor, American hurdler and coach († 1975)
• 1903 » Nicolas Nabokov, Russian-American composer and educator († 1978)
• 1905 » Arthur Lake, American actor († 1987)
• 1905 » Louis Jean Heydt, American journalist and actor († 1960)
• 1906 » Sidney Garfield, American physician, co-founded Kaiser Permanente († 1984)

• 1882 » George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet (b. 1810)
• 1888 » E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (b. 1821)
• 1892 » Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
• 1921 » Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Laurence Ginnell, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1944 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer and coach (b. 1867)

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.
• April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
• April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
• April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
• June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
• 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 April 17, 1902 was between 4.8 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 7.0 °C.