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• Alewijn Maan Voogd Bergwerf, Vlaardingen († 1903)
• Adriaan Dingeman WITKAMP, 's-Gravenhage
• Aaldert Bies, Horst (gem. Horst aan de Maas) († 1982)
• Aart de Zeeuw, 's-Gravendeel
• Adriana Christina Vugts, 's-Hertoenbosch († 1905)
• Alewijn Maan Voogd Bergwerf, Vlaardingen († 1903)
• Aaron Drielsma, Groningen († 1943)
• Aaron Jonas DRIELSMA, Groningen († 1943)
• Adrianus Johannes Boer, Rotterdam
• Alberta Maria Hazewinkel, Enschede, 7500, Nederland († 1987)

• Aaltje Schrooten (57), Langenholte, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• 'n Levenloos geboren dochter van Verboom (0), Rijnsaterwoude
• Alice Caroline Barton (70), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Agata (Grietje) Stam (73), Warmenhuizen
• Adrianus Wetselaar (4), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonie Christoffel Dreyer (49)
• Alida van Kuilenburg (0), Tiel
• Adrianus Joannes Spijkers (15), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Wilhelmina Schuurmans (0), Oss
• Blanche Marie Lagast (1), Brugge

• 1897 » Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer († 1983)
• 1897 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian philosopher and educator († 1981)
• 1897 » Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright († 1975)
• 1899 » Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach († 1958)
• 1903 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator († 1976)
• 1903 » Morgan Taylor, American hurdler and coach († 1975)
• 1903 » Nicolas Nabokov, Russian-American composer and educator († 1978)
• 1905 » Arthur Lake, American actor († 1987)
• 1905 » Louis Jean Heydt, American journalist and actor († 1960)
• 1906 » Sidney Garfield, American physician, co-founded Kaiser Permanente († 1984)

• 1882 » George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet (b. 1810)
• 1888 » E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (b. 1821)
• 1892 » Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
• 1921 » Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Laurence Ginnell, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1944 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer and coach (b. 1867)

• 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 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
• 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.
• July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
• October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
• October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.

The temperature on April 17, 1903 was between -1.4 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (40%).