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• Anna Hendrika den Hollander, Amsterdam († 1963)
• Alice Brabant († 1996)
• Adriana Carolina Petronella van der Put, Roosendaal (Noord-Brabant) († 1965)
• Alice GUILLANEUF, Concressault, Cher, Centre, FRANCE († 1995)
• Albert Wildeman, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1978)
• Agatha Gieles, Den Burg, 1790, Nederland († 1979)
• Alphonsa Maria Logghe, Zerkegem,8490,West-Vlaanderen,België
• "Stanislas" Paul Marie Joseph de Seze, Paris († 2000)
• Aagje Gieles, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 1979)
• "Marianne" Jacqueline barones van Heemstra, Roermond, Limburg, Nederland († 1991)

• Albin Wiktor Klein Kleina (0), Rywałd k. Klonówki, Kociewie, Pomorskie
• Ana Maria dos Santos (85), Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Adrianus Josephus Aerts (0), Alphen en Riel
• Albert Jan Zwerenburg (0), Wilp,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Joseph Körver (0), Hoensbroek (L
• Adriaantje van Soest (71), Zoeterwoude
• Anna Dieters (72), Westerwijtwerd, Loppersum (Gem.)
• Abraham Simon Van BRAKEL (0), Rotterdam
• -- Groenhorst (0), Rotterdam
• Anna Elisabeth Tengeler (89), Amsterdam

• 1899 » Salarrué, Salvadoran writer and painter († 1975).
• 1900 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist († 1927)
• 1903 » Curly Howard, American comedian and vaudevillian († 1952)
• 1903 » George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1904 » Constance Bennett, American actress, singer, and producer († 1965)
• 1904 » Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and radio engineer († 1950).
• 1904 » Saúl Calandra, Argentine football player († 1973).
• 1905 » Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French pianist and composer († 1969)
• 1906 » Aurelio Baldor, Cuban mathematician and lawyer († 1978).
• 1906 » Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer and educator († 1970)

• 1883 » George Coulthard, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1856)
• 1883 » Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American soldier and author (b. 1818)
• 1885 » Lewis Majendie, English politician (b. 1835)
• 1891 » Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist and physician (b. 1846)
• 1902 » Herman Adolfovich Trautschold, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1817)
• 1906 » Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
• 1914 » Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (b. 1866)
• 1917 » Bob Fitzsimmons, English-American boxer (b. 1863)
• 1917 » Charles Pardey Lukis, founder of the Indian Journal of Medical Research and later Director-General of the Indian Medical Service (b. 1857)
• 1927 » Borisav Stanković, Serbian author (b. 1876)

• 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.
• January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
• March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
• June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
• October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
• 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 22, 1903 was between 7.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (22%).