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• Adrianus Meijburg, Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Adrianus Marie Wubben, Delft († 1903)
• Adrianus Maria Cornelis van de Lisdonk, Goirle († 1981)
• Adrianus Leeijen, Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1903)
• Abraham Theodorus VAN RIJN, Overschie
• Adriaan Hendrik van Mierlo, Baardwijk († 1990)
• Alberta Bontius, Avereest († 2002)
• Albertina Anna Van Geenen, Essenberg, Pruisen, Duitsland
• Adrianus Klerkx, Oudheusden en Elshout († 1903)
• Aaltje Hopman, Bunschoten,, Utrecht, Nederland

• Arie van Eck (0), Kesteren (GL) The Netherlands
• Anna Gesina Barlage (19), Augustinusga
• Adriana Maria Bevers (41), Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Schuurman (77), Delft,-
• Anna Maria Voorham (0), Maastricht
• ARIJ 'T HART (77), MAASSLUIS
• Adriana Bevers, Heesch
• Agnes A. Poppenheim (43), South Carolina
• Anna Maria Post (79), Hof van Delft
• Anna Jacobs (11), Waalre

• 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)

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 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.
• March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
• 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.
• August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

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%).