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• Andreas Willem van de Geijn, Druten
• Albertus Johannes Jansen, Wierden († 1974)
• Adriaan Huijser, Zwijndrecht, Nederland
• Adriaan de Nooijer, Arnemuiden
• Alberdina Geertruida Peperkamp, Arnhem († 1903)
• Andries van den Brink, Barneveld
• Albertine Dragstra, Recklinghausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1968)
• Adriana Maria Buijs, Arnemuiden
• Aaltje van der Vuurst, Naarden
• * Elizabeth Alida van den Hondel, Haastrecht († 1983)

• Arnt Pedersen Synnes or Foldereid (75), Hegbert Township, Swift, Minnesota, United States
• Christina TIMMERS (0), Heesch
• Catharina Maria van der Pluijm (0), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Gerardus Joannes Burg (8), 'S Hertogenbosch
• Hiemstra (58)
• Catharina Maria van der Pluim (0), Rotterdam
• Botte Bakker (0), Hollum-Ameland
• Albert baron de Séjournet de Rameignies (72), Ramegnies
• Bijl, Neeltje (59), Nieuwenhoorn
• Catharina Hubertina Maria Schuur (8), Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1898 » Gus Sonnenberg, American football player and wrestler († 1944)
• 1900 » Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano and actress († 2001)
• 1900 » Henri Jeanson, French journalist and author († 1970)
• 1900 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player († 1975)
• 1903 » Empress Kōjun of Japan († 2000)
• 1904 » José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country († 1960)
• 1905 » Bob Wills, American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader († 1975)
• 1906 » Lou Costello, American actor and comedian († 1959)
• 1909 » Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician († 1987)
• 1909 » Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet and author († 1966)

• 1888 » Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (b. 1832)
• 1895 » Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist and activist (b. 1813)
• 1899 » Kaʻiulani of Hawaii (b. 1875)
• 1900 » Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (b. 1834)
• 1905 » John Henninger Reagan, American surveyor, judge, and politician, 3rd Confederate States of America Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1818)
• 1905 » Makar Yekmalyan, Armenian composer (b. 1856)
• 1919 » Oskars Kalpaks, Latvian colonel (b. 1882)
• 1920 » Ömer Seyfettin, Turkish author and educator (b. 1884)
• 1932 » John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (b. 1854)
• 1933 » Anton Cermak, Czech-American lawyer and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)

• 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.
• July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
• August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
• August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
• December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• 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 March 6, 1903 was between 2.4 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (81%).