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• Anna Margaretha Krabbendam, Amsterdam
• Antje KOOPMAN, Rotterdam († 1905)
• Adriana Hendrika Hobbelen, Udenhout († 1904)
• Anna Agnes von Hayek, Dachau, Allemagne († 1937)
• Alexandre Di Sabatino, Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Margaretha Krabbendam, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Anna Soeters, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1973)
• Antoinette Appoline Marie Joseph DEVOS, Comines,7780,Hainaut,Wallonie,Belgique
• Albertus Jantinus Koudijs, Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonie Mattheus van der Splinter, 's Gravenhage († 1989)

• Anna Theresia Wolfs (69)
• Aart van Wijnen (59), Krimpen aan de Lek
• Albert Ruiterkamp (61), Wierden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Petronella Johanna Cornelia Adriaansen (1), Goirle
• Anna Maria Catharina Zebregs (0), Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Alida Magendans (75), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Korteland (0), Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje de Goede (26), Tolbert
• Anna Maria Petronella Adriaansen (1), Goirle
• Anna Glavimans (68), Waalwijk

• 1901 » Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist and author († 1980)
• 1901 » Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company († 1966)
• 1901 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1902 » Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1988)
• 1902 » Strom Thurmond, American educator, general, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina († 2003)
• 1903 » C. F. Powell, English-Italian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1969)
• 1903 » Johannes Heesters, Dutch-German actor and singer († 2011)
• 1905 » Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (d.1949)
• 1905 » Gus Mancuso, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster († 1984)
• 1905 » Otto Preminger, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer († 1986)

• 1870 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)

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 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
• May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
• June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
• December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

The temperature on December 5, 1903 was between -0.2 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged 1.0 °C.