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• Andreas Josefus Maria Blomjous, Tilburg,Gemeente Tilburg,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Adrianus Fijneman, Raamsdonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1912)
• Anna Catharina Mathilde EIJCKENBOOM, Bilzen (Limburg), België († 1924)
• Abe Gras († 1983)
• Aart Vierhout, Nunspeet († 1985)
• Adrianus Huizer, Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Afiena Antje Amsinga, Farmsum (gem. Eemsdelta) († 1994)
• "Napoléon" Jean Jules Lannes de Montebello, Paris († 1988)
• Agatha Joanna Maria de Haas, Warmond († 1989)
• Albert Klaas de Groot, Alteveer (Roden) († 1979)

• Alexander Mayfield Penssel (77), Eldon, Missouri
• Carel Zilversmit (53), Esens, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Catharijna Johanna Elisabeth Elling (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Andreae (0), Putten
• Abraham Barend (0), Amsterdam Noord-Holland Nederland
• Anna Maria Andreae (0)
• Annigje van den Heuvel (6), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Andreae (0), Putten
• Carel Appeldoorn (64), Utrecht
• Albertje Greving (69), Groningen

• 1898 » Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian († 2015)
• 1898 » Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1976)
• 1900 » Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps († 1974)
• 1900 » Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor († 1944)
• 1901 » Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg († 1971)
• 1901 » Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator († 1970)
• 1904 » Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian († 1984)
• 1905 » László Benedek, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer († 1992)
• 1908 » Fritz Fischer, German historian and author († 1999)
• 1908 » Irving Fiske, American author and playwright († 1990)

• 1876 » Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)
• 1893 » Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
• 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1895 » Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
• 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
• 1929 » David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)
• 1935 » Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877)

• 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.
• April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
• 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.
• August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
• September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
• October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.

The temperature on March 5, 1903 was between 4.7 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 7.5 °C.