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• Adriana de Roon, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1904)
• Albertus Cornelis van Haren, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland († 1980)
• Adam Authement, Jennings, Jefferson Davis, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• Anna Mullekom, Helden, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adrianus Josephus Mels, Boxtel († 1915)
• Adriaan Cornelis Breure, Dinteloord (N.B.) († 1960)
• Albertus Cornelis van Haren, Zevenaar († 1980)
• Aloïs De Cauwer, Temse, België († 1975)
• Albert Nijenhuis *, Steenwijk
• van 't Hof, Tilburg

• Anna Maria Dirven (76), Princenhage
• Adrianus (Godefridus) Terwindt (75), Arnhem
• Antoinette Catharina Lijfelt (81), Amsterdam
• Arie Klarenbeek (64), Hilversum
• Adriana Coenraad (76), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan van der Schriek (78), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Spierings (72), Den Dungen, NL
• Adrianus Godefridus Terwindt (75), Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Beers (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Asselina van Weegele (86), Zwollekerspel

• 1891 » Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina and educator († 1975)
• 1891 » R. Norris Williams, Swiss-American tennis player and banker († 1968)
• 1892 » Ernst Lubitsch, German American film director, producer, writer, and actor († 1947)
• 1895 » Muna Lee, American poet and author († 1965)
• 1901 » Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and broadcaster, founded the DuMont Television Network († 1965)
• 1901 » E. P. Taylor, Canadian businessman and horse breeder († 1989)
• 1903 » Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Russian-Israeli biochemist and philosopher († 1994)
• 1905 » Barnett Newman, American painter and etcher († 1970)
• 1906 » Joe Primeau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1989)
• 1913 » Victor Mature, American actor († 1999)

• 1870 » Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
• 1871 » Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786)
• 1888 » Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator (b. 1812)
• 1899 » Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)
• 1906 » Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• 1928 » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I (b. 1861)
• 1933 » Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
• 1934 » Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and politician, 130th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1871)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
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 5.3 million citizens.
• February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
• April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
• April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
• July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
• November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
• December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The temperature on January 29, 1903 was between 2.8 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (21%).