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• Aijo van der Zwaag, Bedum, Groningen, Nederland
• Abraham Brinkman, Stellendam († 1959)
• Smit, Schildwolde, Groningen, Nederland († 1903)
• Alfons Stevens, Herzele
• Andrée David, Le Vésinet, Yvelines, France († 1982)
• Anna Catharina van den Mosselaar, Den Dungen († 1975)
• Aaffientje Ike, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaan Roelse, Vlissingen
• Albert William Blake, Pitstone, Buckinghamshire, England
• Adriana Margaretha Lelijveld, Loosduinen

• Arend Tol (0), Kloosterveen (Assen)
• Adriana Boumans (0), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland Nederland
• Anna Maria Alphonsina Pluymers (0), Groot-Gelmen, België
• Anna Hubertina Couvelier (77), Vaals
• Adrianus Visser (22), Batavia, Indonesië
• Antonius Zwagerman (0), Spanbroek, Opmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelisz de Jongh (57), Hilversum
• Adrianus de Jongh (57), Hilversum
• Smit (0), Schildwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus van Geilswijk (63), Haarlemmermeer

• 1898 » Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, designed the Finlandia Hall and Aalto Theatre († 1976)
• 1899 » Café Filho, Brazilian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th President of Brazil († 1970)
• 1900 » Mabel Mercer, English-American singer († 1984)
• 1903 » Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier, pilot, and politician († 1973)
• 1904 » Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster († 1934)
• 1905 » Arne Beurling, Swedish-American mathematician and academic († 1986)
• 1905 » Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist and academic († 1990)
• 1906 » George Adamson, Indian-English author and activist († 1989)
• 1907 » James A. Michener, American author and philanthropist († 1997)
• 1909 » André Cayatte, French lawyer and director († 1989)

• 1862 » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
• 1866 » François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1935 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (b. 1893)
• 1947 » Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot (b. 1887)

• 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.
• July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
• 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 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

The temperature on February 3, 1903 was between 1.1 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.8 °C.