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• Aale Schouwstra, Stroobos, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Stolte, Sint Annaparochie († 1973)
• Angèle Marie Bogaert, Dudzele, Brugge, West Flanders, Belgium († 1904)
• Allegonda Hendrika Gradussen, Deest, Gelderland, Nederland († 1978)
• van der Kooij, Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1903)
• Aafke Scholte, Vriescheloo-Bellingwedde(Gr) († 1903)
• Apolonia Rosalia Beugels, Hulst,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albert VERRECAS, Brugge,8000,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1970)
• Adriana Mackay
• Albert Knuts, Hasselt, België († 1989)

• Akke Jans de Jong (68), ,,, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Arend van der Spek (70), Bergschenhoek, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus DOEDIJNS (79), 's-Gravendeel
• Anna Elisabeth Dimonti (69), Djogdjakarta
• Andries Paauw (40), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolf Kerke (65), Kampen, Nederland
• Adrianus van Dijk (74), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Vos (0), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• van der Kooij (0), Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Ringenier (80), Olst {OV}

• 1899 » Ralph Greenleaf, American billiards player († 1950)
• 1899 » Rezső Seress, Hungarian pianist and composer († 1968)
• 1900 » Adolf Dassler, German businessman, founded Adidas († 1978)
• 1901 » André Malraux, French historian, theorist, and author († 1976)
• 1901 » Leopold III of Belgium († 1983)
• 1901 » Lionel Hitchman, Canadian ice hockey player († 1969)
• 1903 » Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator († 1981)
• 1903 » Walker Evans, American photographer and journalist († 1975)
• 1905 » Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic († 1998)
• 1906 » Julia Boyer Reinstein, American teacher and historian († 1998)

• 1890 » Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1811)
• 1891 » Louis Lucien Bonaparte, English-Italian philologist and politician (b. 1813)
• 1900 » Carrie Steele Logan, American philanthropist, founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States (b. ~1829)
• 1914 » Georg Trakl, Austrian-Polish pharmacist and poet (b. 1887)
• 1917 » Léon Bloy, French author and poet (b. 1846)
• 1918 » Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Annie Oakley, American entertainer and target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1927 » Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist and author (b. 1860)
• 1929 » Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and educator (b. 1883)
• 1933 » Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1853)

• 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.
• August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
• December 16 » Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
• 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 November 3, 1903 was between 2.2 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%).