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• de Groot, Nieuwland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1903)
• Aaltje van der STARRE, The Hague (Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands) († 1967)
• Alfred EDMUND NIETZKE, Gelsenkirchen († 1978)
• Albertus Herman Snuverink, Enschede († 1972)
• Adrianus Bernardus de Bruin, Soest
• Adrianus Bernardus Cornelis van Dijk, Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)
• Albert Venema, Ogden († 1982)
• Hobbelen, Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agnes Maria van den DUNGEN, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Geertsma, Ter Apelkanaal, Westerwolde, Groningen, Nederland († 1903)

• Adriana van Dam (36), Stolwijk
• Anna Maria van den Oord (0), Ammerzoden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Barend Kuijk (54), Veenhuizen (Norg)
• Carolus Geerinckx (75), Geel, 2440, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Adele Aimee DESMEDT (63), Houthem,7781,Hainaut,Wallonie,Belgique
• Alexandre MERCIER (80), Villers-Sainte-Gertrude, 83052, Luxembourg, Belgique
• Charles Louis Castelyn (84), Klerken
• Geertsma (0), Ter Apelkanaal, Westerwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana van Dam (35), Stolwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Berculo (Berkulo) (71), Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1900 » C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor († 1932)
• 1900 » Jean Arthur, American actress († 1991)
• 1900 » Yvor Winters, American critic and poet († 1968)
• 1901 » Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator († 1973)
• 1902 » Irene Ryan, American actress († 1973)
• 1903 » Andrei Grechko, Soviet general († 1976)
• 1903 » Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter († 1940)
• 1905 » Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly († 1996)
• 1906 » Paul Derringer, American baseball player († 1987)
• 1907 » John Marley, American actor († 1984)

• 1868 » Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
• 1887 » Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
• 1889 » Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
• 1893 » Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
• 1910 » Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
• 1918 » Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
• 1928 » Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
• 1937 » J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)

• 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 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
• April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
• July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
• October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
• December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The temperature on October 17, 1903 was between 7.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (12%).