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• Anna Gerarda Kock, Herwen en Aerdt
• Agatha Gieles, Den Burg († 1979)
• Agatha (Aagje) Gieles, Den Burg, Texel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1979)
• Andries van Kampen, Bedum
• Albert Nomden, Bellingwolde, Groningen, Netherlands
• An Anna Maria Driessen, Panningen († 1992)
• Adolf Paul Tortilowicz von Bartocki-Friebe, Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia († 1944)
• ANNA CATHARINA VAN DEN BRANDEN, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1927)
• Adriana Cornelia de Koning, Hermalle-ss-Arg († 1944)
• Albert Nomden, Bellingwolde (gem. Westerwolde)

• Anna Christina Barendina Picart (72), Weesp
• Anna Pommer
• Adrianus Soeterix (83), Besoijen
• Antonia Tuitert (70), Erve ... Dortherhoek, Bathmen
• Abe Harmens Dijkstra (77), Leeuwarden
• Anna Geertruij Magerij (63), Rotterdam
• Aartje Goudsbloem (23), Bunschoten
• Adrianus Souterix (Zouterix) (83), Besoijen Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annaatje de Jong (79)
• arie arien leewes (81), nijmegen (Gelderland)

• 1897 » Edith Head, American costume designer († 1981)
• 1897 » Hans Speidel, German general († 1984)
• 1901 » Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet († 1979)
• 1902 » Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer († 1986)
• 1903 » Evelyn Waugh, English journalist, author, and critic († 1966)
• 1903 » John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic († 1995)
• 1904 » George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author († 1986)
• 1905 » Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician († 1984)
• 1907 » John Hewitt, Irish poet, playwright, and critic († 1987)
• 1908 » Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina († 1995)

• 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
• 1918 » Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)

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.
• January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
• February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
• July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
• September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
• 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 28, 1903 was between 8.3 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 12.3 °C.