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• Michielsen, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Hopman, Bunschoten
• Adrianus Meijburg, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1911)
• Adrianus Maria Cornelis van de Lisdonk, Goirle († 1981)
• Alberta Bontius, Avereest († 2002)
• Albert Wolbers, Orvelte, Westerbork
• Adrianus Meijburg, Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Adam Johannes Tielen, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Klok, Nijkerk
• Adriana Maria Andeweg, Rotterdam († 1903)

• Anna Maria Voorham (0), Maastricht (Limburg)
• Anna Lammertsma (28), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Petrus Paulus Peeters (27), Geertruidenberg
• Aaltje Eenhuizen, Arnhem
• Anna Catharina Wauters (84), Ruisbroek, Belgie
• Anna Maria Schuurman (77), Delft,-
• Arie Bak (84), Stolwijk
• ARIJ 'T HART (77), MAASSLUIS
• Aafke Pieters Kroos (80), Tietjerksteradeel
• Anna Jacobs (11), Waalre, North Brabant, Netherlands

• 1897 » Paul Alverdes, German author and poet († 1979)
• 1898 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician († 1945)
• 1902 » Harry Golden, Ukrainian-American journalist and author († 1981)
• 1902 » Max Ophüls, German-American director and screenwriter († 1957)
• 1903 » Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant († 1977)
• 1904 » Catherine Lacey, English actress († 1979)
• 1904 » Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)
• 1904 » Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic († 1984)
• 1905 » Philip N. Krasne, American lawyer and producer († 1999)
• 1906 » André Weil, French mathematician and academic († 1998)

• 1862 » Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1877 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
• 1882 » Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
• 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 1919 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)
• 1939 » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)

• 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.
• March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
• April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
• April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
• 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.
• December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

The temperature on May 6, 1902 was between 0.3 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (67%).