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• († 1980)
• Alberta Wilhelmina Groters, Wisch († 1969)
• Alice Swierenga, Chicago (Cook), Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1991)
• Albert Vos, Krakeel/Hoogeveen († 1986)
• Aleida Kattenbroek, Barneveld († 1982)
• Albert Vos, Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands(Krakeel) († 1986)
• Adriana Jacoba Cornelissen, Rhenen († 1970)
• Aldert Vermeulen († 1930)
• Wilhelmus Mark, Leiden
• Adriana Leontine Josine Marie Heesbeen, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1991)

• Arie de Kraaij (61), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Charles Greely Loring II (73), Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Koiter (83), Stadskanaal (Wildervank), Groningen, Nederland
• Bernardus van Lammeren (23), Bloemendaaal
• Antonie van Arendonk (61), Herwijnen (GD)
• Cornelia van der Kaaij (65), 's Gravenzande
• Catharina Hendrika Kok (25), Amsterdam
• Carolus Ludovicus Van Camp (0), Sint-Niklaas, 9100, Oost-Vlaanderen, B
• Anne Jogchum Hazenberg (0), Grootegast
• Anthonij in den Bosch (70), Zierikzee

• 1898 » Clemente Biondetti, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1900 » Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge († 1987)
• 1900 » Ruth Norman, American religious leader († 1993)
• 1902 » Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter († 1968)
• 1902 » Margaret Murie, American environmentalist and author († 2003)
• 1903 » Lucienne Boyer, French singer († 1983)
• 1904 » Max Factor, Jr., American businessman († 1996)
• 1905 » Enoch Light, American bandleader, violinist, and recording engineer († 1978)
• 1906 » Curtis Jones, American blues pianist and singer († 1971)
• 1906 » Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter († 1996)

• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)

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.
• 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 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
• May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
• June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
• August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The temperature on August 18, 1902 was between 13.7 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%).